Deuteronomy 8

¹The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do , that you may live and multiply , and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers .

²And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness , that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart , whether you would keep his commandments or not.

³And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna , which you did not know , nor did your fathers know , that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone , but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

⁴Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years .

⁵Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son , the Lord your God disciplines you.

⁶So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.

⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land , a land of brooks of water , of fountains and springs , flowing out in the valleys and hills ,

⁸a land of wheat and barley , of vines and fig trees and pomegranates , a land of olive trees and honey ,

⁹a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity , in which you will lack nothing , a land whose stones are iron , and out of whose hills you can dig copper .

¹⁰And you shall eat and be full , and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

¹¹Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes , which I command you today ,

¹²lest , when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,

¹³and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied ,

¹⁴then your heart be lifted up , and you forget the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of slavery ,

¹⁵who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness , with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water , who brought you water out of the flinty rock ,

¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know , that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end .

¹⁷Beware lest you say in your heart , My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth .

¹⁸You shall remember the Lord your God , for it is he who gives you power to get wealth , that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers , as it is this day .

¹⁹And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish .

²⁰Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish , because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God .