Deuteronomy 8

Remember the Lord Your God

8“Every commandment which I command you today ^ayou must ¹be careful to observe, that you may live and ^bmultiply, ²and go in and possess the land of which the Lord ³swore to your fathers. ²And you shall remember that the Lord your God ^cled you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and ^dtest you, ^eto know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. ³So He humbled you, ^fallowed you to hunger, and ^gfed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall ^hnot live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. ⁴ⁱYour garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. ^5jYou should ⁴know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.

⁶“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, ^kto walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, ^la land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; ⁸a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil 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. ^10mWhen you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, ¹²ⁿlest—when you have eaten and are ⁵full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; ¹³and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are ⁶multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ^14owhen your heart ⁷is lifted up, and you ^pforget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; ¹⁵who ^qled you through that great and terrible wilderness, ^rin which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; ^swho brought water for you out of the flinty rock; ¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with ^tmanna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, ^uto do you good in the end—¹⁷then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

¹⁸“And you shall remember the Lord your God, ^vfor it is He who gives you power to get wealth, ^wthat He may ⁸establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, ^xI testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. ²⁰As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, ^yso you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.