Deuteronomy, 8

1. 'You must keep and put into practice all the commandments which I enjoin on you today, so that you may survive and increase in numbers and enter the country which Yahweh promised on oath to your ancestors, and make it your own.

1. "All the commandment which I command you this day you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers.

2. Remember the long road by which Yahweh your God led you for forty years in the desert, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart -- whether you would keep his commandments or not.

2. And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

3. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that human beings live not on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Yahweh.

3. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

4. The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet were not swollen, all those forty years.

4. Your clothing did not wear out upon you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.

5. 'Learn from this that Yahweh your God was training you as a man trains his child,

5. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.

6. and keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and so follow his ways and fear him.

6. So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him.

7. 'But Yahweh your God is bringing you into a fine country, a land of streams and springs, of waters that well up from the deep in valleys and hills,

7. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills,

8. a land of wheat and barley, of vines, of figs, of pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, of honey,

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

9. a land where you will eat bread without stint, where you will want nothing, a land where the stones are iron and where the hills may be quarried for copper.

9. a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

10. You will eat and have all you want and you will bless Yahweh your God in the fine country which he has given you.

10. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.

11. 'Be careful not to forget Yahweh your God, by neglecting his commandments, customs and laws which I am laying down for you today.

11. "Take heed lest you forget the LORD your God, by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes, which I command you this day:

12. When you have eaten all you want, when you have built fine houses to live in,

12. lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,

13. when you have seen your flocks and herds increase, your silver and gold abound and all your possessions grow great,

13. and when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied,

14. do not become proud of heart. Do not then forget Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour,

14. then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

15. who guided you through this vast and dreadful desert, a land of fiery snakes, scorpions, thirst;

15. who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

16. who in this waterless place brought you water out of the flinty rock; who in this desert fed you with manna unknown to your ancestors, to humble you and test you and so make your future the happier.

16. who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

17. 'Beware of thinking to yourself, "My own strength and the might of my own hand have given me the power to act like this."

17. Beware lest you say in your heart, `My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'

18. Remember Yahweh your God; he was the one who gave you the strength to act effectively like this, thus keeping then, as today, the covenant which he swore to your ancestors.

18. You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

19. Be sure: if you forget Yahweh your God, if you follow other gods, if you serve them and bow down to them -- I testify to you today -- you will perish.

19. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish.

20. Like the nations Yahweh is to destroy before you, so you yourselves will perish, for not having listened to the voice of Yahweh your God.'

20. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.