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Chapter 8
- 8:1
- All the commandments which I
command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto
your fathers.
- 8:2
- And thou shalt remember all the
way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in
thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
- 8:3
- And he humbled thee, and suffered
thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not,
neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man
doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
- 8:4
- Thy raiment waxed not old upon
thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- 8:5
- Thou shalt also consider in thine
heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God
chasteneth thee.
- 8:6
- Therefore thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear
him.
- 8:7
- For the LORD thy God bringeth thee
into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths
that spring out of valleys and hills;
- 8:8
- A land of wheat, and barley, and
vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and
honey;
- 8:9
- A land wherein thou shalt eat
bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land
whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
- 8:10
- When thou hast eaten and art full,
then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath
given thee.
- 8:11
- Beware that thou forget not the
LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and
his statutes, which I command thee this day:
- 8:12
- Lest when thou hast eaten and art
full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- 8:13
- And when thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou
hast is multiplied;
- 8:14
- Then thine heart be lifted up, and
thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land
of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
- 8:15
- Who led thee through that great
and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions,
and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water
out of the rock of flint;
- 8:16
- Who fed thee in the wilderness
with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and
that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- 8:17
- And thou say in thine heart, My
power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
- 8:18
- But thou shalt remember the LORD
thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he
may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is
this day.
- 8:19
- And it shall be, if thou do at all
forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them,
and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely
perish.
- 8:20
- As the nations which the LORD
destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not
be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
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