Deuteronomy 8

¹“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord

²And you shall remember that the Lord

³So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord

⁴Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

⁵You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord

⁶“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord

⁷For the Lord

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

⁹a 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.

¹⁰When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord

¹¹“Beware that you do not forget the Lord

¹²lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;

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

¹⁴when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord

¹⁵who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;

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

¹⁷then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

¹⁸“And you shall remember the Lord

¹⁹Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord

²⁰As the nations which the Lord