¹¹“Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you today,^o ¹²lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them, ¹³and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and you have accumulated silver and gold,^p and all that you have^q has multiplied, ¹⁴then your heart becomes proud^r and you forget Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out^s from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, ¹⁵the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with dangerous^t snakes^u and scorpions^v and parched ground, where there is^w no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock, ¹⁶the one feeding you^x manna in the desert, food that your ancestors^y did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you in the future.^z ¹⁷And you may think^a in your heart, ‘My strength and the might of my hand acquired this wealth for^b me.’

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Deuteronomy 8:17–18: Beware lest you say in your heart, ‛My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth …

Footnotes

oLiterally “the day”
pLiterally “and silver and gold has multiplied for you”
qLiterally “is for you”
rLiterally “raises up”
sLiterally “the one bringing you out”
tLiterally “burning”
uHebrew “snake”
vHebrew “scorpion”
wOr “was”
xLiterally “causing you to eat”
yOr “fathers”
zLiterally “in the end/later”
aOr “say”
bLiterally “gave this wealth to”