[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.
