“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be
careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and
possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers. And
you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you
these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you,
testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep
his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and
fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers
know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread
alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the
LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not
swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man
disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. So you
shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his
ways and by fearing him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into
a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs,
flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley,
of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and
honey, a 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. And you shall eat and be full,
and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has
given you.
“Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his
commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you
today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good
houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply
and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is
multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying
wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty
ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the
flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your
fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do
you good in the end. 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, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your
fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and
go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly
warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that
the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because
you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
