invites Israel to enter life apart from covenant.… Israel does not have many resources with which to resist the temptation. The chief one is memory.”15 So if they should be tempted pridefully to say, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me,” they were to remember that it was Yahweh their God “who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today” (Deut 8:17–18). How they regarded and treated
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