1 “Every commandment which I command you today ayou must be careful to observe, that you may live and bmultiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord3 swore to your fathers.
2 And you shall remember that the Lord your God aled you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you andbtest you, cto know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
3 So He humbled you, aallowed you to hunger, and bfed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall cnot live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
4aYour garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
5aYou should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, ato walk in His ways and to fear Him.
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, aa land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10aWhen you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
12alest—when you have eaten and are1 full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell inthem;
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are1 multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
14awhen your heart is lifted up, and you bforget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
15 who aled you through that great and terrible wilderness, binwhichwere fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; cwho brought water for you out of the flinty rock;
16 who fed you in the wilderness with amanna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, bto do you good in the end—
17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, afor itis He who gives you power to get wealth, bthat He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as itis this day.
19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, aI testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, aso you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
DEUTERONOMY, the second law, a title which plainly shows what is the object of this book, namely, a recapitulation of the law. It was given in the form of public addresses to the people; and as Moses spoke in the prospect of his speedy removal, he enforced obedience to it by many forcible appeals to the Israelites, concerning their long and varied experience both of the mercies and the judgments of God. The minute notices of the heathen people with whom they had come in contact, but who afterward disappeared from the pages of history, as well as the accounts of the fertility and products of Canaan, and the counsels respecting the conquest of that country, fix the date of this book and the time of its composition by the hand of Moses. The close, however, must have been added by another; and, indeed, it is supposed by some to have formed the original preface to the Book of Joshua.
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