D'varim (Deu) 8
8
1“All the mitzvot I am giving you today you are to take care to obey, so that you will live, increase your numbers, enter and take possession of the land Adonai swore about to your ancestors. 2You are to remember everything of the way in which Adonai led you these forty years in the desert, humbling and testing you in order to know what was in your heart — whether you would obey his mitzvot or not. 3He humbled you, allowing you to become hungry, and then fed you with man, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that a person does not live on food alone but on everything that comes from the mouth of Adonai. 4During these forty years the clothing you were wearing didn’t grow old, and your feet didn’t swell up. 5Think deeply about it: Adonai was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his child. 6So obey the mitzvot of Adonai your God, living as he directs and fearing him. 7For Adonai your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs and water welling up from the depths in valleys and on hillsides. 8It is a land of wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land where you will eat food in abundance and lack nothing in it; a land where the stones contain iron and the hills can be mined for copper. 10So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless Adonai your God for the good land he has given you.
(ii) 11“Be careful not to forget Adonai your God by not obeying his mitzvot, rulings and regulations that I am giving you today. 12Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them, 13and increased your herds, flocks, silver, gold and everything else you own, 14you will become proud-hearted. Forgetting Adonai your God — who brought you out of the land of Egypt, where you lived as slaves; 15who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you; 16who fed you in the desert with man, unknown to your ancestors; all the while humbling and testing you in order to do you good in the end — 17you will think to yourself, ‘My own power and the strength of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’ 18No, you are to remember Adonai your God, because it is he who is giving you the power to get wealth, in order to confirm his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as is happening even today. 19If you forget Adonai your God, follow other gods and serve and worship them, I am warning you in advance today that you will certainly perish. 20You will perish just like the nations that Adonai is causing to perish ahead of you, because you will not have heeded the voice of Adonai your God.”
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1‘All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;
2and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which [is] in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.
3‘And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.
4‘Thy raiment hath not worn out from off thee, and thy foot hath not swelled these forty years,
5and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,
6and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.
7‘For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:
8a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
9a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;
10and thou hast eaten, and been satisfied, and hast blessed Jehovah thy God, on the good land which he hath given to thee.
11‘Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day;
12lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
13and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied:
14‘And thy heart hath been high, and thou hast forgotten Jehovah thy God (who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;
15who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness — burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst — where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;
16who is causing thee to eat manna in the wilderness, which thy fathers have not known, in order to humble thee, and in order to try thee, to do thee good in thy latter end),
17and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:
18‘And thou hast remembered Jehovah thy God, for He it [is] who is giving to thee power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He hath sworn to thy fathers as [at] this day.
19‘And it hath been — if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;
20as the nations whom Jehovah is destroying from your presence, so ye perish; because ye hearken not to the voice of Jehovah your God.
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