 1 All the commandments that I command you this day you shall be careful to do so that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 You shall remember all the way that the Lord your God led you these 40 years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 He humbled you and allowed you to hunger, and then He fed you with manna that you did not know, neither did your fathers know it, so that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the Lord man shall live. 4 your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell, these 40 years. 5 You have known with your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear him. 7 For the Lord your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring 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 you shall eat bread without want. You shall not lack any thing in it. It is a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 10 You shall eat and be satisfied, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land that He has given you. 11 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes that I command you today, 12 lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them, 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 might be lifted up, and you might forget the Lord your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. 15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with fiery serpents, scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water. Yet who brought forth water for you out of a rock of flint? 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you and so that He might prove you, to do you good in your latter end. 17 All this so that you might not say in your heart, my own strength+ and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. 18 But remember the Lord your God. For it is He who gives you the ability+ to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant that He has sworn to your fathers, as it is today. 19 If you do at all forget the Lord your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 Just as the nations whom the Lord destroys before your face, so you will perish because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
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