Deuteronomy:8

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* All the commandment which I am commanding thee to-day , shalt thou , observe , to do , that ye may , live , and multiply , and enter in and possess the land , which Yahweh sware unto your fathers . * So then , thou shalt remember all the way in which Yahweh thy God caused thee to journey these forty years in the desert , that he might humble time to put thee to the proof to know what was in thy heart , whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not . * So he humbled thee , and suffered thee to hunger , and fed thee with manna which thou hadst not known , neither had thy fathers known , that he might lead thee to consider that not on bread alone , shall the son of earth live , but on whatsoever cometh from the bidding of Yahweh , shall the son of earth live . * Thy mantle , hath not fallen with age from off thee , and , thy foot , hath not become swollen , these forty years . * Thou must consider , then with thy heart , that as a man chasteneth his son , Yahweh thy God , hath been chastening thee . * Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments of Yahweh thy God , to walk in his ways and to revere him . * For , Yahweh thy God , is bringing thee into a good land ; a land of ravines of water , of fountains and depths , coming forth in valley , and in mountain : * a land of wheat and barley , and vine and fig-tree , and pomegranate , a land of olive oil , and honey : * a land wherein not in scarcity , shalt thou eat food , thou shalt lack nothing therein , a land whose stones are iron , and out of whose hills thou mayest hew copper . * So then thou shalt eat and be satisfied , and bless Yahweh thy God , for the good land which he hath given unto thee . * Take heed to thyself , lest thou forget Yahweh thy God , so as not to keep his commandments and his regulations and his statutes , which I am commanding thee to-day ; * lest thou eat , and be satisfied , and goodly houses , thou build and inhabit ; * and thy herd and thy flock , increase , and silver and gold , increase unto thee , and all that thou hast , increase ; * and so thy heart be lifted up , and thou forget Yahweh thy God , who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt out of the house of servants ; * who caused thee to journey through the great and terrible desert , of fiery serpents and scorpions , and thirsty wastes where was no water , who brought forth for thee water out of the flinty rock ; * who fed thee with manna in the desert , which thy fathers had not known , that he might humble thee , and that he might put thee to the proof , to do thee good in thy hereafter , * and lest thou shouldest say in thy heart , Mine own strength and the might of mine own hand , have gotten me this wealth . * But thou shalt remember Yahweh thy God , that it was , he , who had been giving thee strength to get wealth , that so he might establish his covenant which he sware to thy fathers as at this day . * But it shall be if thou forget , Yahweh thy God , and go after ether gods , and serve them , and bow thyself down to them , I testify against you to-day , that ye shall perish : * like the nations which , Yahweh , is causing to perish from before you , so , shall ye perish , because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh your God .

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