Deuteronomy 8
1 “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;
You must take care to follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and have many descendants, and go in and take over the country the Lord promised to give to your fore fathers.
2 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.
Remember how for these forty years the Lord your God has led you all the way through the desert, humbling you and testing you in order to find out what you were really thinking, and whether or not you would keep his commandments.
3 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.
He humbled you, and when you were hungry he gave you manna to eat, which nobody, including you and your forefathers, had ever had before This was in order to make it clear to you that human beings do not live by only eating bread, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
4 Your raiment has not worn out from off you, and your foot has not swelled these forty years,
During these forty years your clothing didn't wear out and your feet didn't swell up.
5 and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,
So you should realize that just as a parent disciplines their child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
That's why you have to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, following his ways and respecting him.
7 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;
For the Lord your God is taking you to a good country. It's a land of streams and pools and springs that flow through the valleys and down the hills;
8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
It's a land that produces wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey.
9 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.
It's a land where you won't run out of food, where you will have everything you need; a land whose rocks contain iron ore and whose hills can be mined for copper.
10 And you have eaten and been satisfied, and have blessed your God YHWH on the good land which he has given to you.
When you eat and are full, make sure you thank the Lord your God for the good land that he's given you.
11 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;
Make sure you don't forget the Lord your God by disobeying his commandments and rules and regulations that I'm giving you today.
12 lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],
For when you eat and are full, when you build beautiful houses to live in,
13 and your herd and your flock are multiplied, and silver and gold are multiplied to you, and all that is yours is multiplied,
and when your herds and flocks grow larger, and your silver and gold accumulates, and all your possessions increase,
14 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;
then you will become proud, and you will forget the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt, out of the prison-house of slavery.
15 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;
He guided you through the immense and terrifying desert with its poisonous snakes and scorpions—a dried up, waterless land. He brought water for you out of a flint rock.
16 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;
He fed you in the desert with manna that your forefathers had never known, humbling you and testing you, so that eventually you would do well in the future.
17 and you have said in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.
You might think to yourselves, “I became rich through all my hard work.”
18 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.
But remember it's the Lord your God who gives you the ability to become rich, in order to fulfill his agreement he promised to your forefathers that still exists today.
19 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.
If you ever forget the Lord your God, and run after other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, I assure you right now that you will definitely die!
20 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.”
In the same way the Lord destroyed the nations as you advanced, you will also die if you don't obey the Lord your God.
