Deuteronomy 8

1 You must keep all the commands that I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that Yahweh swore to 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 You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.

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 made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known and which your fathers had not known. He did that to make you know that it is not by bread alone that people live; rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live.

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 fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.

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

5 You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh 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 You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor him.

and you have kept the commands of your God YHWH, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

7 For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out into valleys and among 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 and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey.

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

9 It is a land in which you will eat bread without lack, and where you will not go without anything; a land whose stones are made of iron, and out of whose hills you may dig 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 You will eat and be full, and you will bless Yahweh 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 that you do not forget Yahweh your God, and that you do not neglect his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today,

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 full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.

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

13 Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when 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 becomes lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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 Do not forget him who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of 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 ancestors had never known, so that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end,

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 but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'

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

18 But you will call to mind Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

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 It will happen that, if you will forget Yahweh your God and walk after other gods, worship them, and reverence 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 Yahweh is making to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh 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.”