Deuteronomy 8

You shall keep doing all the commands that I am commanding you today so that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that God swore to your fathers.

And you shall remember all the way that God your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness so that he might humble you, to test you to know what {was} in your heart, if you would keep his commandments {or} not. \*

And he humbled you and caused you to hunger and fed you manna, which you had not known and your fathers had not known, so that he might make you know that man does not live upon bread alone, but upon everything coming out of the mouth of God the man lives. \*

Your clothing did not wear out from upon you, and your feet did not swell up these 40 years.

And you shall know with your heart that, as a man instructs his son, God your God instructs you. \*

And you shall keep the commandments of God your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him. \*

For God your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, fountains, and springs coming out in valleys and in hills;

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

a land where you will eat bread in it not with poverty, you will not lack anything in it; a land where its stones {are} iron, and from the hills you may dig copper.

And you will eat and be full, and you will bless God your God for the good land that he has given to you. \*

Guard yourself, lest you forget God your God by failing to keep his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes that I am commanding you today,

lest you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live {in them}, \*

and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply for you, and all that you have multiplies,

and your heart is lifted up and you forget God your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. \*

He led you in the great and terrible wilderness, fiery serpent and scorpion and thirsty ground where there was no water, he brought out water for you from the rock of flint.

He fed you manna in the wilderness that your fathers had not known so that he might humble you and so that he might test you, to do you good in your end.

And you will say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand made for me this wealth.’ \*

And you shall remember God your God, for he is the one who gives to you power to make wealth so that he may establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as this day. \*

And it will happen, if forgetting, you forget God your God and walk after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that perishing, you will perish.

Like the nations that God is causing to perish from your faces, thus you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of God your God. \*