8:1 You must keep carefully the entire commandment¹ I am giving you today so that you might live, multiply, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors. 8:2 Remember the whole way by which he² has brought you these 40 years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test to see whether deep within³ you would keep his commandments or not. 8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and feeding you with unfamiliar manna⁴ so that you might understand that mankind cannot live by food only but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.⁵ 8:4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these 40 years. 8:5 Be keenly aware⁶ that just as a human being disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you. 8:6 Thus, you must keep his⁷ commandments, that is, walk according to his ways and revere him. 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig-trees, and pomegranates, one⁸ of olive trees and honey, 8:9 a land where you may eat food aplenty⁹ and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron¹⁰ and from whose hills you can mine copper. 8:10 You will eat and drink and bless the LORD your God because of the good land he will have given you.

8:11 Be very careful lest you forget the LORD your God, not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving¹¹ you today, 8:12 and lest when you eat to your satisfaction,¹² build and occupy good houses, 8:13 your cattle and flocks increase, you have plenty of silver and gold, and you have abundance of everything, 8:14 you feel self-important¹³ and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slaves, 8:15 and brought you through the great, fearful desert of flaming serpents¹⁴ and scorpions, a thirsty place of no water, bringing forth for you water from flintrock, and 8:16 feeding you manna from the desert which your ancestors never knew so that he might prove you and eventually bring good to you; 8:17 lest you say, “My own ability¹⁵ has gotten me this wealth.” 8:18 You must remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors,¹⁶ even as he has to this day. 8:19 Now it will come about that if you at all forget the LORD your God and run after other gods, worshiping and prostrating before them, I testify to you today that you will be utterly destroyed. 8:20 Just like the nations the LORD is about to decimate from your sight, so he will do to you because you would pay no attention to him.¹⁷