Deuteronomy 8
1 “Keep every command I give you today and put it into practice, so that you may live, increase in number, enter the land, and take possession of it—the land the LORD swore to your ancestors.
2 Remember the whole journey on which the LORD your God led you through the wilderness these forty years, to humble you and test you, and to know what was in your heart—whether you would keep his commands or not.
3 He humbled you, let you go hungry, and fed you with manna, which you had never known, nor had your ancestors. He did this to teach you that human beings do not live by bread alone, but by everything that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5 Know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 Keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and revering him.
7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land: a land of streams, springs, and underground waters flowing through valleys and hills;
8 a land of wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees, olive oil, and honey;
9 a land where you will eat bread without scarcity and lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.
10 You will eat and be satisfied, and you will praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.”
11 “Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, his laws, and his decrees, which I am giving you today.
12 You may eat and be satisfied, build fine houses, and live in them;
13 your herds and flocks may grow in number, your silver and gold may increase, and everything you own may multiply.
14 Then your heart may become proud, and you may forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
15 He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a dry land with no water. He brought water out for you from hard rock.
16 In the wilderness he fed you with manna, which your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you, and in the end to do you good.
17 Do not say in your heart, ‘My strength and the power of my hand have gained this wealth for me.’
18 Remember the LORD your God, because it is he who gives you the strength to gain wealth, to uphold the covenant he swore to your ancestors, as he has done today.
19 But if you completely forget the LORD your God and follow other gods, serving them and bowing down to them, I declare against you today that you will surely perish.
20 Like the nations the LORD is destroying before you, so you will perish, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.”
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