THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY

 

Deuteronomy Chapter 8

1 ¶ That you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD promised to your fathers, you must be careful to do all the commandments that I command you this day.

2 And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you on your entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

3 And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, something neither you or your fathers had known; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

4 Your clothing did not grow old upon you, nor did your foot swell, during these forty years.

5 You shall also consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

6 Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs flowing out of valleys and hills;

8 A land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olives, and honey;

9 A land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig brass.

10 ¶ When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, by not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built nice houses, and live in them;

13 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

15 Who led you through that great and terrible desert, with its fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; but who brought forth water for you out of the rock of flint;

16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, about which your fathers knew nothing, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good in the end;

17 And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it shall be, if you forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

20 You shall perish as the nations which the LORD destroys before you; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.