Jubilee2000 - Deuteronomy - 8

8:1  Take care to do all the commandments which I command thee this day that ye may live and be multiplied and enter in and inherit the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers.

8:2  And thou shalt remember all the way by which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness to afflict thee [and] to prove thee to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

8:3  And he afflicted thee and caused thee to hunger and sustained thee with manna, [food of] which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know, that he might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every [word] that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD shall man live.

8:4  Thy raiment never waxed old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

8:5  And know in thine heart, that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD thy God chastens thee.

8:6  Keep, therefore, the commandments of the LORD thy God [by] walking in his ways and fearing him.

8:7  For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,

8:8  a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, and honey;

8:9  a land in which thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it, a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose mountains thou may dig brass.

8:10  Thou shalt eat and be full and bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he has given thee.

8:11  Keep thyself, that thou forget not the LORD thy God, to not fulfill his commandments and his rights and his statutes, which I command thee this day,

8:12  lest peradventure [when] thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt [therein],

8:13  and [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied,

8:14  then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,

8:15  who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness of burning serpents and scorpions and drought, where [there was] no water, who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint,

8:16  who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, [a food] which thy fathers knew not, afflicting thee and proving thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

8:17  and thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of [my] hand has gotten me this wealth.

8:18  But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for [it is] he that gives thee the power to get wealth that he may confirm his covenant which he swore unto thy fathers, as [it is] this day.

8:19  And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I protest against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

8:20  As the Gentiles which the LORD shall destroy before your face, so shall ye perish because ye would not attend to the voice of the LORD your God.: