Deuteronomy 8

¹ All the instruction which I am enjoining on you today you shall observe to obey, that you may live and multiply and enter and tenant the land about which Yahweh had sworn to your fathers. ² And remember all the way which Yahweh your Elohim caused you to go these forty years in the wilderness, that He might make you humble, to probe you so as to know what is in your heart, whether or not you shall observe His instructions. ³ So He made you humble and let you hunger; then He fed you with the manna which neither you had known, nor had your fathers known, that He might make you realize that not on bread alone shall the human live, for by every utterance from the mouth of Yahweh shall the human live. ⁴ Your garment has not worn out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years, ⁵ So you know with your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, Yahweh your Elohim is disciplining you. ⁶ Hence observe the instructions of Yahweh your Elohim so as to walk in His ways and to fear Him. ⁷ For Yahweh your Elohim is bringing you into a land good and wide, a land of watercourses, with water from springs and from the abyss coming forth in valley and in mountain, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley and vine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey, ⁹ a land in which you may eat bread, not in frugality. You shall not lack anything in it, a land whose stones have iron-ore, and from its mountain ranges you may hew copper. ¹⁰ When you have eaten and are satisfied, then bless Yahweh your Elohim for the good land that He has given to you. ¹¹ Guard yourself lest you should forget Yahweh your Elohim by failing to observe His instructions and His judgments and His statutes that I am enjoining on you today, ¹² lest, when you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and dwell in them, ¹³ and your herd and your flock multiply, and silver and gold increase for you, and all that is yours is abundant, ¹⁴ then your heart becomes exalted and you forget Yahweh your Elohim Who was bringing you forth from the country of Egypt, from the house of servants, ¹⁵ Who was causing you to go through the great and fear-inspiring wilderness with burning serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground in which there is no water, Who was bringing forth for you water from the flinty rock, ¹⁶ Who was feeding you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, that He might make you humble and that He might probe you, to do you good in your latter days. ¹⁷ Guard yourself lest you say in your heart: My vigor and the staunchness of my hand make for me this great estate. ¹⁸ Yet you will remember Yahweh your Elohim, for He is the One giving to you the vigor to make this estate, that He may confirm His covenant that He had sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, as in this day. ¹⁹ It will come to be that if you forget, yea forget Yahweh your Elohim and go after other elohim and serve them and bow yourself down to them, I testify against you today that you shall perish, yea perish. ²⁰ Like the nations which Yahweh is destroying before your face so shall you perish, inasmuch as you do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your Elohim.