Deuteronomy 8:1-13 ▼

1 All the commands which I command thee this day ye shall watch to do, so that ye shall live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your fathers.

2 And remember thou all the way which Jehovah thy God caused thee to go this forty years in the desert in order to humble thee, to try thee, to know what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt watch his commands or not.

3 And he will humble thee, and cause thee to hunger, and will give thee to eat manna which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; so that he caused thee to know that upon bread only man shall not live, but upon all going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall man live.

4 Thy garments decayed not from thee, and thy feet swelled not this forty years.

5 And know thou with thy heart that as a man will chastise his son, Jehovah thy God chastises thee.

6 And watch thou the commands of Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways and to fear him.

7 For Jehovah thy God brings thee to a good land, a land of torrents of water, fountains, and depths going forth in the valley and in the mountain;

8 A land of wheat and barley and the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate, a land of the olive tree, of oil and honey;

9 A land where thou shalt eat bread in it not with poverty; thou shalt not want any thing in it; a land whose stones, iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt hew out brass.

10 And thou atest and wert satisfied, and didst bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he gave to thee.

11 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, not watching his commands and his judgments and his laws which I command thee this day:

12 Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert satisfied, and thou wilt build good houses and thou dwelt;

13 And thy cattle and thy sheep shall multiply, and thy silver and thy gold shall multiply to thee, and all which is in thee shall multiply;