Chapter 8
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 .