Deuteronomy Chapter 8

Call Not to Forget the LORD

¹ “Do every commandment I’m giving you today, so you’ll live and multiply, and take over the land. ² Remember the way Yahveh led you in the desert those 40 years to humble you. He was testing you to see if you were committed to obeying him. ³ He let you get hungry, then fed you with manna, which you and your ancestors had never seen. He made you understand that a person doesn’t live by bread alone, but by everything Yahveh says. ⁴ All that time your clothes didn’t wear out; your feet didn’t swell. ⁵ He was disciplining you like a father disciplines his children. ⁶ So follow his commandments and respect him. ⁷ He’s taking you to a good land with streams and fountains, springs flowing in the hills and valleys. ⁸ It’s a land of wheat and barley; grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates; olive oil and honey; ⁹ a land where there’s plenty of food, whose stones contain iron, whose hills have copper you can mine. ¹⁰ When you eat till you’re full, bless Yahveh for the good land he’s given you.

Deut 8:1-10

¹¹ “Make sure you don’t forget him or neglect his commandments, ordinances, and statutes. ¹² That way you’ll eat till you’re full, build nice houses and live in them, ¹³ have herds and flocks that multiply, and increase your silver and gold along with everything else you have. ¹⁴ Then you won’t get proud and forget about him. ¹⁵ He led you through the big, terrible desert, its poisonous snakes and scorpions, its thirsty ground with no water. He brought water out of flint rock. ¹⁶ He fed you manna to test you and humble you, to do you good in the end. ¹⁷ Otherwise, you might say to yourselves that your own power and strength have created this wealth. ¹⁸ Remember that he’s giving you the opportunity to create wealth in confirmation of his covenant. ¹⁹ If you ever forget him and go after other gods, I’m telling you today, you’ll certainly perish ²⁰ like the nations he’ll make perish in front of you.                  Deut 8:11-20