Chapter 8
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All the commandment that I command you today you shall keep, to do it, in order that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to your fathers.
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You shall remember all the way that the LORD your God has led you to walk these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, to test you, to know what is in your heart, whether you keep his commandments or not.
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He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you the manna which you did not know and your fathers did not know, in order to make you know that man does not live on bread alone, but man lives on every utterance that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
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Your garments did not wear out on you, and your feet did not swell, these forty years.
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You shall know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
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And you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to fear him.
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For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of streams of water, springs and abysses going out in the valleys and on the mountains.
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a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey.
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a land in which you will not need to eat bread, in which you will lack nothing—all of it a land whose stones are iron and from whose mountains you will hew bronze.
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And you shall eat and be satisfied and bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you.
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Take heed lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his judgments and his statutes which I am commanding you today.
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lest you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and dwell.
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and your cattle and your sheep will multiply, and silver and gold will increase for you, and all that you have will increase.
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and your heart is lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from a house of slaves.
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the one who led you through the wilderness, the great and awesome serpent, fiery serpent and scorpion and thirst, where there was no water, the one who brought water for you from the flinty rock.
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your food was manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you, to do good for you in your latter days.
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And you will say in your heart, "My power and the strength of my hand made this wealth for me."
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And you shall remember the LORD your God, for he is the one giving you strength to make wealth, in order to establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as this day.
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And it shall be, if you forget—if you ever forget—the LORD your God, and you go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish—you will perish.
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As the nations that the LORD is destroying before you, so you will perish, because you do not obey the voice of the LORD your God.