Deuteronomy 8:7-20 ▼

7 For YHWH your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs flowing out of valleys and hills;

8 a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

9 a land in which without scarcity you will eat bread; you will not lack any in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from the hills you can dig copper.

10 And you will eat and be satisfied; and you will bless YHWH your God for the good land that He has given you.

11 Take heed to it that you do not forget YHWH your God, by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes, which I command you today—

12 lest you eat and be satisfied and build and inhabit beautiful houses;

13 and your herd and your flock multiply, and your silver and your gold multiply to you, and all that is to you is multiplied;

14 and your heart is lifted up, and you forget YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery;

15 who led you in the great and the terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the rock of flint;

16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you, that He might test you, to do you good in the end;

17 and you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.”

18 And you shall remember YHWH your God, for He gives you power to gain wealth, that He may establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it shall come to pass, if you ever forget YHWH your God and follow after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you? this day that you? will surely perish.

20 As the nations that YHWH destroys before you?, so you? shall perish, because you? would not listen to the voice of YHWH your? God.