Deuteronomio 8
1 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.
Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
2 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.
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
3 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.
And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 Tu ropa no envejeció sobre ti, ni tu pie se hinchó, en estos cuarenta años.
Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
5 Considerarás en tu corazón que como un hombre disciplina a su hijo, así te disciplina Yahvé, tu Dios.
Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.
6 Guardarás los mandamientos de Yahvé vuestro Dios, para andar en sus caminos y para temerle.
Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.
7 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;
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
8 una tierra de trigo, cebada, vides, higueras y granadas; una tierra de olivos y de miel;
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
9 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.
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
10 Comerás y te saciarás, y bendecirás al Señor tu Dios por la buena tierra que te ha dado.
And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
11 Cuídate de no olvidarte de Yahvé vuestro Dios, al no guardar sus mandamientos, sus ordenanzas y sus estatutos, que yo te ordeno hoy;
Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:
12 no sea que cuando hayas comido y te sacies, y hayas construido casas hermosas y vivas en ellas;
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
13 y cuando se multipliquen tus rebaños y tus manadas, y se multiplique tu plata y tu oro, y se multiplique todo lo que tienes;
And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
14 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;
Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
15 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;
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
16 que te alimentó en el desierto con el maná que tus padres no conocieron, para humillarte y probarte, para hacerte bien en tu final;
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
17 y para que no digas en tu corazón: “Mi poder y la fuerza de mi mano me han conseguido esta riqueza.”
Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
18 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.
But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
19 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.
And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.
20 Como las naciones que Yahvé hace perecer delante de ti, así perecerás tú, porque no quisiste escuchar la voz de Yahvé vuestro Dios.
Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
