1 All the commandment which I command you this day shall you
observe to do, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess
the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. 2 You shall remember all the
way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness,
that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart,
whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 He humbled you, and
allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither
did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by
bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does
man live. 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot
swell, these forty years. 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man
chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you. 6 You shall keep the
commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of
water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a
land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of
olive trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without
scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron,
and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 10 You shall eat and be full,
and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this
day: 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly
houses, and lived therein; 13 and when your herds and your flocks
multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have
is multiplied; 14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your
God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in
which were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no
water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed
you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he
might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter
end: 17 and lest you say in your heart, My power and the might of
my hand has gotten me this wealth. 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your
God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish
his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day. 19 It shall
be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve
them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall
surely perish. 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you,
so shall you perish; because you wouldn’t listen to the voice of
Yahweh your God.
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