Deuteronomy 8:1–10

¹‘All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers; ²and thou hast remembered all the way which Jehovah thy God hath caused thee to go these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble thee to try thee, to know that which is in thy heart, whether thou dost keep His commands or not.

³‘And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.

⁴‘Thy raiment hath not worn out from off thee, and thy foot hath not swelled these forty years, ⁵and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee, ⁶and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.

⁷‘For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain: ⁸a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey; ⁹a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass.

¹⁰And thou hast eaten, and been satisfied, and hast blessed Jehovah thy God, on the good land which he hath given to thee.