a Deut 4:1
b Deut 8:16
c Ps 136:16; Amos 2:10
d Ex 15:25; 20:20; 2 Chr 32:31
f Matt 4:4; Luke 4:4
g Deut 29:5; Neh 9:21
h Deut 4:36; 2 Sam 7:14; Prov 3:12; Heb 12:6; Rev 3:19
j Deut 11:9-12; Jer 2:7
k Deut 6:11
m Deut 4:9
n Prov 30:9; Hos 13:6
p Deut 8:11; Ps 106:21
r Deut 1:19; Jer 2:6
s Num 21:6
t Ex 17:6; Num 20:11; Deut 32:13; Ps 78:15; 114:8
u Ex 16:15
v Deut 8:2
x Deut 9:4
y Prov 10:22; Hos 2:8
z Deut 4:26; 30:18
aa Ezek 5:5-17

Deuteronomy 8

God’s Gracious Dealings

1“All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you amay live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your forefathers. 2 b“You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has cled you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, dtesting you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3“He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you ▼
▼ Lit know
understand that fman does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. 4 g“Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 h“Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. 6“Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to ▼
▼ Or reverence
fear Him. 7“For jthe Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10“When kyou have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

11 ▼
▼ Lit Take heed to yourself
“Beware that you do not mforget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; 12otherwise, nwhen you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them, 13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, 14then your heart will become ▼
▼ Lit lifted up
proud and you will pforget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of ▼
▼ Lit slaves
slavery. 15“He led you through rthe great and terrible wilderness, with its sfiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He tbrought water for you out of the rock of flint. 16“In the wilderness He fed you manna uwhich your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might vtest you, to do good for you ▼
▼ Lit at your end
in the end. 17“Otherwise, xyou may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ 18“But you shall remember the Lord your God, for yit is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19“It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, zI testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20“Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so aayou shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
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