Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 8

Deut 8:1 “Guard to do every command which I command you today, that you
might live, and shall increase, and go in, and shall possess the land of which
יהוה swore to your fathers.
Deut 8:2 “And you shall remember that יהוה your Elohim led you all the way
these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, prove you, to know what
is in your heart, whether you guard His commands or not.
Deut 8:3 “And He humbled you, and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with
manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, to make you know
that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the
mouth of יהוה.
Deut 8:4 “Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell
these forty years.
Deut 8:5 “Thus you shall know in your heart that as a man disciplines his
son, so יהוה your Elohim disciplines you,
Deut 8:6 therefore you shall guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim, to
walk in His ways and to fear Him.
Deut 8:7 “For יהוה your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of
streams of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills,
Deut 8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,
Deut 8:9 a land in which you eat bread without scarcity, in which you do not
lack at all, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you dig
copper.
Deut 8:10 “And you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless יהוה your
Elohim for the good land which He has given you.
Deut 8:11 “Be on guard, lest you forget יהוה your Elohim by not guarding His
commands, and His right-rulings, and His laws which I command you today,
Deut 8:12 lest you eat and shall be satisfied, and build lovely houses and
shall dwell in them,
Deut 8:13 and your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and your
gold are increased, and all that you have is increased,
Deut 8:14 that your heart then becomes lifted up, and you forget יהוה your
Elohim who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of
bondage,
Deut 8:15 who led you through that great and awesome wilderness – fiery
serpents and scorpions and thirst – where there was no water, who brought
water for you out of the flinty rock,
Deut 8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did
not know, in order to humble you and to try you, to do you good in the end,
Deut 8:17 you then shall say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my
hand have made for me this wealth!’
Deut 8:18 “But you shall remember יהוה your Elohim, for it is He who gives
you power to get wealth, in order to establish His covenant which He swore
to your fathers, as it is today.
Deut 8:19 “And it shall be, if you by any means forget יהוה your Elohim, and
follow other mighty ones, and serve them and bow yourself to them, I have
warned you this day that you shall certainly perish.
Deut 8:20 “Like the nations which יהוה is destroying before you, so you are
to perish, because you did not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim.