Deuteronomy 8

1 You 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.

Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

2 Remember 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.

And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

3 He 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.

And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.

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

Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

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

Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.

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

Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.

7 For 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;

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

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

A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;

9 a 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.

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

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

And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

11 Be 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.

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

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

And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

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

And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

14 then 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.

Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;

15 He 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.

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

16 He 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.

Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;

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

Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.

18 But 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.

But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

19 If 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.

And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

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

Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.