8:1   "All the commandments that I command you today you shall carefully do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.

8:2   " You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what you had in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

8:3  "He humbled you and let you felt hungry , and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

8:4   " Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

8:5   " Thus you should know in your heart that the LORD your God disciplined you just as a man disciplines his son.

8:6   "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

8:7  "For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

8:8   a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

8:9   a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones consist of iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

8:10   "When you have eaten and have satisfied yourself, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

8:11   "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I command you today;

8:12   otherwise, when you have eaten and have satisfied yourselves, and have built good houses and lived in them,

8:13   and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplied,

8:14   then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

8:15   "He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where you could find no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.

8:16   "In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end.

8:17   "Otherwise, you may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.'

8:18   "But you shall remember the LORD your God, for He gives you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it has occurred this day.

8:19   "It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

8:20   "Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.