Deut 8
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All the commandment which I command you this day shall you observe to do, that you
may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which YHWH swore to your fathers.
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And you shall remember all the way which YHWH your God has led you these forty years
in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
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And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you
knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does
not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of YHWH does
man live.
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Your raiment waxed not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
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And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so YHWH your
God chastens you.
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And you shall keep the commandments of YHWH your God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him.
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For YHWH your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains
and springs, flowing forth in 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 you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything
in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
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And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless YHWH your God for the good land
which he has given you.
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Beware lest you forget YHWH your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances,
and his statutes, which I command you this day:
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lest, when you have eaten and art full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied,
and all that you have is multiplied;
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then your heart be lifted up, and you forget YHWH your God, who brought you forth
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
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who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents
and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water
out of the rock of flint;
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who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might
humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
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and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me
this wealth.
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But you shall remember YHWH 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 at this day.
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And it shall be, if you shall forget YHWH your God, and walk after other gods, and
serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely
perish.
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As the nations that YHWH makes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because
you would not hearken to the voice of YHWH your God.