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²You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

³He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn`t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

⁴Your clothing didn`t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

⁵You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

⁶You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

⁷For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

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

⁹a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

¹⁰You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

¹¹Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

¹²lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

¹³and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

¹⁴then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;