Deu 8 | ABEn | STEP | All the commandments which I give charge to you today you shall guard to do, that you should live and manifoldly multiply, and should enter and should inherit the land which [ 2 swore by an oath 1 the lord ] to your fathers.

Deuteronomy 8

CHAPTER 8 Man Shall Not Live by Bread Alone

1 All the commandments which I give charge to you today you shall guard to do, that you should live and manifoldly multiply, and should enter and should inherit the land which [²swore by an oath ¹the lord] to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember the whole journey which [³led ⁴you ¹the lord ²your God] this fortieth year in the wilderness, how he should afflict you, and should test you, and should determine the things in your heart, if you shall guard his commandments or not. 3 And he afflicted you, and caused you to hunger, and fed you the manna which [²had not ³known ¹your fathers]; that he should announce to you that, [³not ⁵by ⁶bread ⁷alone ²shall ⁴live ¹A man]; but by every word going forth through the mouth of God shall [²live ¹a man]. 4 Your garments did not grow old from you; your feet were not calloused -- behold, for forty years. 5 And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should correct his son, so the lord your God corrects you. 6 And you shall guard the commandments of the lord your God, to go in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For the lord your God shall bring you into a land good and abundant, of which are rushing streams of waters, and springs of the deeps going forth through the plains, and through the mountains. 8 A land of wheat, and barley, grapevines, fig-trees, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey. 9 A land upon which [³without ⁴poorness ¹you shall eat ²your bread], and you shall not be in want upon it. A land of which its stones are iron, and from out of its mountains you shall mine brass. 10 And you shall eat and shall be filled up, and shall bless the lord your God upon the [²land ¹good] of which he has given to you.

Warnings in Forgetting The LORD

11 Take heed to yourself! that you should not forget the lord your God, so as to not guard his commandments, and his judgments, and his ordinances, as many as I give charge to you today; 12 lest having eaten, and being filled up, and [³houses ²good ¹having built], and dwelling in them, 13 and your oxen, and your sheep having been multiplied to you, and silver and gold having been multiplied to you, and all as much as to you shall be multiplying, 14 you should be raised up high in your heart, and should forget the lord your God, the one leading you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, 15 the one leading you through the [⁴wilderness ¹great ²and ³dreadful], that one of which is [²serpent ¹the biting], and scorpion, and thirst, of which there was no water; the one leading to you [³from out of ⁵rock ⁴chiseled ¹a spring ²of water]; 16 the one feeding you the manna in the wilderness, which [²had not ³known ¹you], and [²did not ³know ¹your fathers]; that he should afflict you, and that he should put you to the test, and [²good ³unto you ¹do] upon the last of your days; 17 and lest you should say in your heart, My strength and the might of my hand produced to me [²ability ¹this great]. 18 And you shall remember the lord your God, that he gives to you strength to produce the ability, that he should establish his covenant which he swore by an oath to your fathers as today. 19 And it will be if in forgetfulness you should forget the lord your God, and should go after other gods, and should serve to them, and should do obeisance to them, I testify to you today on both heaven and the earth that by destruction you shall be destroyed. 20 As also the remaining nations, as many as the lord destroys before your face, so shall you be destroyed; because you did not hearken to the voice of the lord your God.