The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 08
1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today,
that you may live, and multiply, and go in
and possess the land which Yahweh swore
to your fathers.
2 You shall remember all the way which
Yahweh your God has led you these forty
years in the wilderness, that he might
humble you, to test you, to know what was
in your heart, whether you would keep his
commandments or not.
3 He humbled you, allowed you to be
hungry, and fed you with manna, which
you didn’t know, neither did your fathers
know, that he might teach you that man
does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you,
neither did your foot swell, these forty
years.
5 You shall consider in your heart that as
a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your
God disciplines you.
6 You shall keep the commandments of
Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and
to fear him.
7 For Yahweh your God brings you into
a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
springs, and underground water flowing
into valleys and hills;
8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees,
and pomegranates; a land of olive trees
and honey;
9 a land in which you shall eat bread
without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron,
and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall
bless Yahweh your God for the good land
which he has given you.
11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your
God, in not keeping his commandments,
his ordinances, and his statutes, which I
command you today;
12 lest, when you have eaten and are full,
and have built fine 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 forget Yahweh your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage;
15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes
and scorpions, and thirsty ground where
there was no water; who poured water for
you out of the rock of flint;
16 who fed you in the wilderness with
manna, which your fathers didn’t know,
that he might humble you, and that he
might prove you, to do you good at your
latter end;
17 and lest you say in your heart, “My
power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
18 But you shall remember Yahweh your
God, for it is he who gives you power to get
wealth, that he may establish his covenant
which he swore to your fathers, as it is
today.
19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh
your God, and walk after other gods, and
serve them and worship them, I testify
against you today that you shall surely
perish.
20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to
perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your
God’s voice.