Deuteronomy 8

1 all [the] commandment which I to command you [the] day to keep: careful [emph?] to/for to make: do because to live [emph?] and to multiply and to come (in): come and to possess: take [obj] [the] land: country/planet which to swear LORD to/for father your

“You must faithfully obey all the commandments that I am giving you today. If you do that, you will live [a long time], you will become very numerous, and you will occupy the land that Yahweh solemnly promised your ancestors that he would give [to you].

2 and to remember [obj] all [the] way: journey which to go: take you LORD God your this forty year in/on/with wilderness because to afflict you to/for to test you to/for to know [obj] which in/on/with heart your to keep: obey (commandment his *Q(K)*) if not

And do not forget how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past 40 years. He [caused you to have many problems/difficulties], because he wanted to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not yourselves. And he wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do [IDM], whether you would obey his commandments or not.

3 and to afflict you and be hungry you and to eat you ([obj] *L(abh)*) [the] manna which not to know and not to know [emph?] father your because to know you for not upon [the] food: bread to/for alone him to live [the] man for upon all exit lip LORD to live [the] man

So he caused you to have/experience difficulties. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna [food from heaven], food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food [for their bodies]; but [they also need food for their spirits, which comes from paying attention to] everything that Yahweh says [MTY].

4 mantle your not to become old from upon you and foot your not to swell this forty year

During those 40 years [of walking through the desert], our clothes did not wear out and our feet did not swell [from walking a very long way through the desert].

5 and to know with heart your for like/as as which to discipline man: anyone [obj] son: child his LORD God your to discipline you

Do not forget that Yahweh our God disciplines us, like parents discipline their children.

6 and to keep: obey [obj] commandment LORD God your to/for to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct his and to/for to fear: revere [obj] him

“Do obey the commandments of Yahweh our God, and conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and revere him.

7 for LORD God your to come (in): bring you to(wards) land: country/planet pleasant land: country/planet torrent: river water spring and abyss to come out: issue in/on/with valley and in/on/with mountain: mount

He is about to bring you into a good/fertile land, which has streams which flow down from the hills and pour/flow out of springs in the valleys.

8 land: country/planet wheat and barley and vine and fig and pomegranate land: country/planet olive oil and honey

It is a land on which wheat and barley grow, a land where there are fig trees and pomegranates, and a land where there are olive trees and honey.

9 land: country/planet which not in/on/with poverty to eat in/on/with her food: bread not to lack all in/on/with her land: country/planet which stone her iron and from mountain her to hew bronze

It is a land where there will be plenty of food for you, where you will (not lack anything/have everything that you need) [LIT], a land which has iron [ore] in its rocks and from which you can dig copper [ore] from its hills.

10 and to eat and to satisfy and to bless [obj] LORD God your upon [the] land: country/planet [the] pleasant which to give: give to/for you

[Every day] you will eat until your stomachs are full, and you will thank Yahweh our God for the fertile/good land that he has given you.

11 to keep: careful to/for you lest to forget [obj] LORD God your to/for lest to keep: obey commandment his and justice: judgement his and statute his which I to command you [the] day

But, [when that happens], be sure not to forget Yahweh our God by disobeying his commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.

12 lest to eat and to satisfy and house: home pleasant to build and to dwell

When your stomachs are full [every day], and when you have built good houses and are living in them,

13 and cattle your and flock your to multiply [emph?] and silver: money and gold to multiply to/for you and all which to/for you to multiply

and when the number of your cattle and sheep has greatly increased, and when you have accumulated a large amount of silver and gold, and the amount of all your other possessions has greatly increased,

14 and to exalt heart your and to forget [obj] LORD God your [the] to come out: send you from land: country/planet Egypt from house: home servant/slave

be sure that you do not become proud [IDM] and forget Yahweh our God, who rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt and brought them out from there.

15 [the] to go: take you in/on/with wilderness [the] great: large and [the] to fear serpent serpent and scorpion and parched which nothing water [the] to come out: issue to/for you water from rock [the] flint

Do not forget that he led them [while they traveled] through that huge and terrible desert, where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. And do not forget that where the ground was very dry and there was no water, he caused water to flow for them out of (solid/very hard) rock.

16 [the] to eat you manna in/on/with wilderness which not to know [emph?] father your because to afflict you and because to test you to/for be good you in/on/with end your

Do not forget that in that desert he gave your ancestors manna to eat, food that they had never eaten before. He [caused them to have/experience many problems/difficulties], because he wanted them to realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them, to find out whether they intended to obey him, in order that when [those difficulties] ended, he would do many good things for them.

17 and to say in/on/with heart your strength my and strength hand: power my to make: offer to/for me [obj] [the] strength: rich [the] this

Be sure that you do not think to yourselves, ‘I have acquired all these things by my own power [MTY] and ability.’

18 and to remember [obj] LORD God your for he/she/it [the] to give: give to/for you strength to/for to make: offer strength: rich because to arise: establish [obj] covenant his which to swear to/for father your like/as day: today [the] this

Do not forget that it is Yahweh our God who has enabled you to become rich. He does this because he faithfully does what he solemnly promised our ancestors that he would do.

19 and to be if to forget to forget [obj] LORD God your and to go: follow after God another and to serve: minister them and to bow to/for them to testify in/on/with you [the] day for to perish to perish [emph?]

“solemnly warn you that if you forget Yahweh our God and turn to other gods and start to serve them and worship them, you will certainly be destroyed.

20 like/as nation which LORD to perish from face: before your so to perish [emph?] consequence not to hear: obey [emph?] in/on/with voice LORD God your

If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people-groups that you will fight against.”