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Every commandment which I command thee this day shall ye take heed to do, that ye may live, and multiply , and enter in and possess the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers .
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And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness , to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
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And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna , which thou hadst not known , and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
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Thy clothing grew not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell , these forty years.
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And know in thy heart that, as a man chasteneth his son , so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee;
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and thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God , to walk in his ways , and to fear him.
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For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land , a land of water -brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills ;
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a land of wheat , and barley , and vines, and fig -trees, and pomegranates ; a land of olive -trees and honey ;
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a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron , and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper.
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And thou shalt eat and be filled , and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
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Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God , in not keeping his commandments , and his ordinances , and his statutes , which I command thee this day ;
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lest when thou hast eaten and art full , and hast built and inhabited fine houses ,
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and thy herds and thy flocks multiply , and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,
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then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God , who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage;
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who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness , [a wilderness of] fiery serpents , and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water ; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint ;
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who fed thee in the wilderness with manna , which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
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-- and thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has procured me this wealth .
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But thou shalt remember Jehovah thy God , that it is he who giveth thee power to get wealth , that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers , as it is this day .
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And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Jehovah thy God , and go after other gods , and serve them, and bow down to them, I testify against you this day that ye shall utterly perish.
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As the nations which Jehovah is causing to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God .