Deuteronomy 8

Revised Geneva Translation

8 “You shall keep all the Commandments which I command you this day, to do them, so that you may live and be multiplied and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.

² “And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His Commandments or not.

³ “Therefore, He humbled you and made you hungry and fed you with manna, which you did not know (nor did your fathers know it), so that He might teach you that man lived not by bread only. But by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of the LORD does a man live.

⁴ “Your clothing did not grow old upon you, nor did your foot swell, those forty years.

⁵ “Know, therefore, in your heart, that as a man nurtures his son, so the LORD your God nurtures you.

⁶ “Therefore, you shall keep the Commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may walk in His ways, and fear Him.

⁷ “For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land in which are rivers of water and fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains,

⁸ “a land of wheat and barley and of vineyards and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of oil, olive and honey,

⁹ “a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity and in which you shall lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose mountains you shall dig brass.

¹⁰ “And when you have eaten and filled yourself, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, not keeping His Commandments and His Laws and His Ordinances which I command you this day.

¹² “Lest when you have eaten and filled yourself and have built beautiful houses and dwelt in them

¹³ “and your beasts and the sheep are increased and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is increased,

¹⁴ “then your heart is lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage.

¹⁵ “He was your guide in that great and terrible wilderness, in which were serpents and scorpions and drought. There was no water. He brought forth water for you out of the rock of flint.

¹⁶ “He fed you in the wilderness with manna (which your fathers did not know) to humble you and to test you, so that He might do you good in the end,

¹⁷ “lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my own hand has prepared me for this abundance.’

¹⁸ “But remember the LORD your God. For it is He Who gives you power to get substance to establish His Covenant, which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

¹⁹ “And if you forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify to you this day that you shall surely perish.

²⁰ “As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the Voice of the LORD your God.”