Remember the LORD Your God 1 UEB You must keep all the commands that I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that Yahweh swore to your fathers. BSB BSB: You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
2 UEB You will call to mind all the ways that Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order that he might humble you, that he might test you to know what was in your heart, as to whether you would keep his commandments or not. BSB BSB: Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
3 UEB He humbled you, and made you hunger, and fed you with manna, which you had not known and which your fathers had not known. He did that to make you know that it is not by bread alone that people live; rather, it is by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh that people live. BSB BSB: He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 UEB Your clothing did not wear out and fall off you, and your feet did not swell up during those forty years. BSB BSB: Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5 UEB You will think about in your heart, how, as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you. BSB BSB: So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 UEB You will keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, so that you might walk in his ways and honor him. BSB BSB: Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
7 UEB For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out into valleys and among hills; BSB BSB: For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
8 UEB a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey. BSB BSB: a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
9 UEB It is a land in which you will eat bread without lack, and where you will not go without anything; a land whose stones are made of iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. BSB BSB: a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
10 UEB You will eat and be full, and you will bless Yahweh your God for the good land that he has given you. BSB BSB: When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
11 UEB Be careful that you do not forget Yahweh your God, and that you do not neglect his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today, BSB BSB: Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
12 UEB otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up. BSB BSB: Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
13 UEB Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied, BSB BSB: and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
14 UEB then your heart becomes lifted up and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. BSB BSB: then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
15 UEB Do not forget him who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the rock of flint. BSB BSB: He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
16 UEB He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors had never known, so that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end, BSB BSB: He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
17 UEB but you may say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand acquired all this wealth.' BSB BSB: You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
18 UEB But you will call to mind Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is today. BSB BSB: But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
19 UEB It will happen that, if you will forget Yahweh your God and walk after other gods, worship them, and reverence them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. BSB BSB: If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
20 UEB Like the nations that Yahweh is making to perish before you, so will you perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
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