Deuteronomy 8

¹ All the commandmentscommandments which I commandcommand thee this dayday shall ye observeobserve to do, that ye may live, and multiplymultiply, and gogo in and possess the landland which the LORDthe LORD swaresware unto your fathersfathers.

² And thou shalt rememberremember all the wayway which the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod ledled thee these fortyforty years in the wildernesswilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to knowknow what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keepkeep his commandmentscommandments, or no.

³ And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with mannamanna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathersfathers knowknow; that he mightmight make thee knowknow that man doth not live by breadbread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouthmouth of the LORDthe LORD doth man live.

⁴ Thy raimentraiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy footfoot swellswell, these fortyforty years.

⁵ Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a manman chasteneth his sonson, so the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod chasteneth thee.

⁶ Therefore thou shalt keep the commandmentskeep the commandments of the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod, to walkwalk in his waysways, and to fearfear him.

⁷ For the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod bringethbringeth thee into a goodgood landland, a landland of brooks of waterwater, of fountains and depthsand depths that springspring out of valleys and hillshills;

⁸ A landland of wheatwheat, and barleybarley, and vines, and fig treesfig trees, and pomegranatespomegranates; a landland of oiloil oliveolive, and honeyhoney;

⁹ A landland wherein thou shalt eateat breadbread without scarceness, thou shalt not lacklack any thing in it; a landland whose stonesstones are ironiron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brassbrass.

¹⁰ When thou hast eateneaten and art fullfull, then thou shalt blessbless the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod for the goodgood landland which he hath givengiven thee.

¹¹ Beware that thou forgetforget not the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod, in not keepingkeeping his commandmentscommandments, and his judgmentsjudgments, and his statutesstatutes, which I commandcommand thee this dayday:

¹² Lest when thou hast eateneaten and art fullfull, and hast builtbuilt goodly houseshouses, and dweltdwelt therein;

¹³ And when thy herdsherds and thy flocksflocks multiplymultiply, and thy silversilver and thy goldgold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

¹⁴ Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forgetforget the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod, which brought thee forth out of the landland of EgyptEgypt, from the househouse of bondage;

¹⁵ Who ledled thee through that greatgreat and terrible wildernesswilderness, wherein were fiery serpentsserpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no waterwater; who brought thee forth waterwater out of the rockrock of flintflint;

¹⁶ Who fed thee in the wildernesswilderness with mannamanna, which thy fathersfathers knewknew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

¹⁷ And thou saysay in thine heart, My power and the mightmight of mine handhand hath gotten me this wealthwealth.

¹⁸ But thou shalt rememberremember the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod: for it is he that givethgiveth thee power to get wealthwealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swaresware unto thy fathersfathers, as it is this dayday.

¹⁹ And it shall be, if thou do at all forgetforget the LORDthe LORD thy GodGod, and walkwalk afterafter other godsgods, and serveserve them, and worshipworship them, I testify against you this dayday that ye shall surely perish.

²⁰ As the nationsnations which the LORDthe LORD destroyeth beforebefore your faceface, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voicevoice of the LORDthe LORD your GodGod.