 The double "if-then" of linked land and obedience, making the gift of the land conditional.First, says the positive "if-then" — stating the "if" of obedience in familiar cadences bespeaking total commitment in two standard verbs ("love" and "serve") plus the formula from the "Shema" in The "then," the consequence of obedience, is abundant rain in every season that will cause the land to produce everything needed, made explicit through three phrases — first, "grain, wine, oil," a common triad to signal a rich, productive economy (see 22); second, the pasture land for cattle on which the agrarian economy depended (see ); and third, the rhetoric of satiation from Then follows with the negative "if-then" — the "if" being the nullification in of the "Shema" of the compromise of covenantal identity by embracing other gods who seem better at giving rain while making lesser demands.And the negative "then" being drought, as rain is God's gift (see and ).