‏ Deuteronomy 8

1You⌃ shall observe to do all the commands which I charge you today, that you⌃ may live andbe multiplied, and enter in and inherit the land, which the Lord your God swareto give to your fathers. 2And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you in the wilderness,that he might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whetheryou would keep his commandments or no. 3And he afflicted you and straitened you with hunger, and fed you with manna, which yourfathers knew not; that he might teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word thatproceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live. 4Your garments grew not old from off you, your shoes were not worn from off you, your feetwere notpainfully hardened, behold! these forty years. 5And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lordyour God will chasten you. 6And you shall keep the commands of the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to fearhim. 7For the Lord your God will bring you into a good and extensive land, where there are torrentsof waters, and fountains of deep places issuing through the plains and through the mountains: 8a land of wheat and barley,wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land on which you shall not eat your bread with poverty, and you shall not lack anything upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains you shall dig brass. 10And you shall eat and be filled, and shall bless the Lord your God on the good land,which he has given you. 11Take heed to yourself that you forget not the Lord your God, so as not to keep his commands,and his judgments, and ordinances, which I command you this day: 12lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived in them; 13and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold aremultiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you, 14you should be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord your God, who brought you out ofthe land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: 15who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, whereis the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought youa fountain of water out of the flinty rock: 16who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not;that he might afflict you, and thoroughly try you, and do you good in your latter days. 17Lest you should say in your heart, My strength, and the power of mine hand have wroughtfor me this great wealth. 18But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; eventhat he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to your fathers, as at this day. 19And it shall come to pass if you do at all forget the Lord your God, and should go afterother gods, and serve them, and worship them, I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,that you⌃ shall surely perish. 20As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall you⌃perish, because you⌃ hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.

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