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1 You
shall observe to
do all the
commandments which
I command you
today, that you
may live, and
multiply, and go
in and possess
the land which the
LORD swore to
your fathers.
2 You
shall remember all
the way which
the LORD your
God has led
you these forty
years in the
wilderness, that
he might humble
you, to test
you, to know
what was in
your heart,
whether you would
keep his
commandments or
not.
3 He
humbled you,
allowed you to
be hungry, and fed
you with manna,
which you didn’t
know, neither did
your fathers know,
that he might
teach you that
man does not
live by bread
only, but man
lives by every
word that proceeds
out of the
LORD’s mouth.
4 Your
clothing didn’t grow old
on you, neither
did your foot
swell, these forty
years.
5 You
shall consider in
your heart that
as a man
disciplines his
son, so the
LORD your God
disciplines you.
6 You
shall keep the
commandments of
the LORD your
God, to walk
in his ways,
and to fear
him.
7 For
the LORD your
God brings you
into a good land,
a land of brooks
of water, of
springs, and
underground water
flowing into
valleys and hills;
8 a land
of wheat, barley,
vines, fig trees,
and pomegranates;
a land of olive
trees and honey;
9 a land
in which you
shall eat bread
without scarcity,
you shall not
lack anything in
it; a land
whose stones are
iron, and out
of whose hills
you may dig
copper.
10 You
shall eat and be
full, and you
shall bless the
LORD your God
for the good land
which he has
given you.
11 Beware
lest you forget
the LORD your
God, in not
keeping his
commandments, his
ordinances, and
his statutes,
which I command
you today;
12 lest,
when you have eaten
and are full,
and have built
fine houses and
lived in them;
13 and
when your herds
and your flocks
multiply, and your
silver and your
gold is multiplied,
and all that
you have is
multiplied;
14 then
your heart might
be lifted up,
and you forget
the LORD your
God, who brought
you out of
the land of Egypt,
out of the
house of bondage;
15 who
led you through
the great and
terrible wilderness,
with venomous snakes
and scorpions, and
thirsty ground where there
was no water;
who poured water
for you out
of the rock
of flint;
16 who fed
you in the
wilderness with
manna, which
your fathers didn’t know,
that he might
humble you, and
that he might
prove you, to
do you good
at your latter end;
17 and lest
you say in your
heart, “My power
and the might
of my hand
has gotten me
this wealth.”
18 But
you shall remember
the LORD your
God, for it
is he who
gives you power
to get wealth,
that he may
establish his
covenant which he
swore to
your fathers, as
it is today.
19 It
shall be, if
you shall forget
the LORD your
God, and walk
after other gods,
and serve them
and worship them,
I testify against
you today that
you shall
surely perish.
20 As
the nations that
the LORD makes
to perish before
you, so you
shall perish, because
you wouldn’t listen
to the LORD
your God’s voice.