Deuteronomy 8

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Remember the LORD Your God

¹You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.

¹Every commandment that I command you today, you must be careful to do, so that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that YHWH has sworn to your fathers.

²Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

²And you shall remember the whole way that YHWH your God led you this forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

³He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.^a

³And He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you know that the man shall not live by bread alone; but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of YHWH the man shall live.

⁴Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

⁴Your garments did not wear out from you, and your foot did not swell this forty years.

⁵So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

⁵And you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, YHWH your God disciplines you.

⁶Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

⁶And you shall keep the commandments of YHWH your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

⁷For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

⁷For YHWH 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;

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

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

⁹a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

⁹a land in which without scarcity you will eat bread; you will not lack any in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from the hills you can dig copper.

¹⁰When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.

¹⁰And you will eat and be satisfied; and you will bless YHWH your God for the good land that He has given you.

¹¹Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

¹¹Take heed to it that you do not forget YHWH your God, by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes, which I command you today—

¹²Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

¹²lest you eat and be satisfied and build and inhabit beautiful houses;

¹³and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

¹³and your herd and your flock multiply, and your silver and your gold multiply to you, and all that is to you is multiplied;

¹⁴then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁴and your heart is lifted up, and you forget YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery;

¹⁵He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

¹⁵who led you in the great and the terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the rock of flint;

¹⁶He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you, that He might test you, to do you good in the end;

¹⁷You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

¹⁷and you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.”

¹⁸But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

¹⁸And you shall remember YHWH your God, for He gives you power to gain wealth, that He may establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

¹⁹If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

¹⁹And it shall come to pass, if you ever forget YHWH your God and follow after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you will surely perish.

²⁰Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.

²⁰As the nations that YHWH destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of YHWH your God.