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.
Cuidarás de poner en práctica todos los mandamientos que hoy os ordeno, para que viváis y os multipliquéis, y entréis y poséis la tierra que Yahvé juró a vuestros padres.
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.
Recordarás todo el camino que Yahvé, tu Dios, te ha conducido estos cuarenta años en el desierto, para humillarte, para probarte, para saber lo que había en tu corazón, si guardarías sus mandamientos o no.
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.
Te humilló, permitió que tuvieras hambre y te alimentó con el maná, que tú no conocías, ni tus padres tampoco, para enseñarte que no sólo de pan vive el hombre, sino que el hombre vive de toda palabra que sale de la boca de Yahvé.
4 Your clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years.
Tu ropa no envejeció sobre ti, ni tu pie se hinchó, en estos cuarenta años.
5 You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
Considerarás en tu corazón que como un hombre disciplina a su hijo, así te disciplina Yahvé, tu Dios.
6 You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor him.
Guardarás los mandamientos de Yahvé vuestro Dios, para andar en sus caminos y para temerle.
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;
Porque Yahvé vuestro Dios te lleva a una buena tierra, una tierra de arroyos de agua, de manantiales y de aguas subterráneas que fluyen en los valles y en las colinas;
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey.
una tierra de trigo, cebada, vides, higueras y granadas; una tierra de olivos y de miel;
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.
una tierra en la que comerás el pan sin escasez, no te faltará nada en ella; una tierra cuyas piedras son de hierro, y de cuyos montes podrás sacar cobre.
10 You will eat and be full, and you will bless Yahweh your God for the good land that he has given you.
Comerás y te saciarás, y bendecirás al Señor tu Dios por la buena tierra que te ha dado.
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,
Cuídate de no olvidarte de Yahvé vuestro Dios, al no guardar sus mandamientos, sus ordenanzas y sus estatutos, que yo te ordeno hoy;
12 otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
no sea que cuando hayas comido y te sacies, y hayas construido casas hermosas y vivas en ellas;
13 Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
y cuando se multipliquen tus rebaños y tus manadas, y se multiplique tu plata y tu oro, y se multiplique todo lo que tienes;
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.
entonces tu corazón se enaltezca, y te olvides de Yahvé vuestro Dios, que te sacó de la tierra de Egipto, de la casa de servidumbre;
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.
que te condujo por el desierto grande y terrible, con serpientes venenosas y escorpiones, y con tierra sedienta donde no había agua; que te derramó agua de la roca de pedernal;
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,
que te alimentó en el desierto con el maná que tus padres no conocieron, para humillarte y probarte, para hacerte bien en tu final;
17 but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.'
y para que no digas en tu corazón: “Mi poder y la fuerza de mi mano me han conseguido esta riqueza.”
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.
Pero te acordarás de Yahvé, tu Dios, porque es él quien te da el poder para conseguir riquezas, para que confirme su pacto que juró a tus padres, como es hoy.
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.
Si te olvidas del Señor, tu Dios, y andas en pos de otros dioses, y los sirves y los adoras, yo testifico hoy contra ti que ciertamente perecerás.
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.
Como las naciones que Yahvé hace perecer delante de ti, así perecerás tú, porque no quisiste escuchar la voz de Yahvé vuestro Dios.
