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.

“All the command which I am commanding you today you observe to do, so that you live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers;

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 you have remembered all the way which your God YHWH has caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you to try you, to know that which [is] in your heart, whether you keep His commands 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 humbles you, and causes you to hunger, and causes you to eat the manna (which you have not known, even your fathers have not known), in order to cause you to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything proceeding [from] the mouth of YHWH.

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

Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,

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

and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,

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

and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, 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 and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

For your God YHWH is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain;

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

a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive 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.

a land in which you eat bread without scarcity—you do not lack anything in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and you dig bronze out of its mountains.

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 have eaten and been satisfied, and have blessed your God YHWH on the good land which he has given to 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.

Take heed to yourself lest you forget your God YHWH so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding you today;

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

lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],

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

and your herd and your flock are multiplied, and silver and gold are multiplied to you, and all that is yours is multiplied,

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.

and your heart has been high, and you have forgotten your God YHWH who is bringing you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

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 is causing you to go in the great and the terrible wilderness [with] burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst—where there is no water; who is bringing out waters to you from the flinty rock;

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 is causing you to eat manna in the wilderness, which your fathers have not known, in order to humble you, and in order to try you, to do you good in your latter end;

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

and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.

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.

And you have remembered your God YHWH, for it [is] He who is giving power to you to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He has sworn to 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 has been, if you really forget your God YHWH, and have gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed yourself to them, I have testified against you today that you utterly perish.

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

As the nations whom YHWH is destroying from your presence, so you perish, because you do not listen to the voice of your God YHWH.”