18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; 21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.22 For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the [a]hinder sea shall be your border.25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath spoken unto you.
26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day; 28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Another example of Jehovah's law being bound on our hand and on our frontlets (foreheads). We are to have his law bound on our hand and forehead. We are to have His law in our hearts (mind) and our hand (actions). We are to teach our children Jehovah's law and we are to constantly meditate on His Royal Law.
Obedience to Jehovah's law yields a blessing and actually prolongs one's life. We are to diligently (verse 22) keep his commandments.
The hebrew word for diligently is "shamar" (Hebrew Strongs 8104) and means "to hedge about, guard, generally to protect, attend to, etc.: be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep, mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man)."
We are to guard, protect and attend to Jehovah's law. Verse 22 says we are to walk in all His ways. His ways are found in His law. We are to cleave unto Jehovah which is done through His Son Jesus which gives us the new life that allows us to obey to the law.
Jehovah's promise to the Israelites was conditional hinging on their obedience to the law.
Verse 26 and 27, Jehovah sets before us a blessing and a curse. A blessing if we obey Jehovah's commandments. A curse if we disobey the law of Jehovah which is most notably manifested in following other gods. Most of Christendom is following after a strange god called the Trinity. This was the natural result of doing away and changing Jehovah's Royal Law. The apostasy of the early Church led to the council of Nicea which introduced the strange Trinity god. Once we do away with or change Jehovah's law, the end result is the worship of strange gods.
Verse 32, Jehovah commands the Congregation to observe His statutes and judgments. The same command is for the Congregation today.
1 John 5:2-3 (KJV)
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
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