1 You shall be careful to do the whole commandment that I command you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to your fathers. 2 You shall remember all the way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 He humbled you, made you go hungry, and fed you with manna, which you did not know and your fathers had not known, to make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4 Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell these forty years. 5 Know in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and fearing him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, springs and deep waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees yielding oil and of honey, 9 a land where you will eat bread without scarcity and lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose mountains you can quarry copper. 10 You shall eat and be satisfied, and bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes that I command you today: 12 lest, when you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and live in them, 13 and your herds and flocks multiply, your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, 14 your heart be lifted up and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15 who led you through the great and fearsome wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where there was no water, who brought water for you out of the flint rock, 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, to humble you and test you, to do you good in the end, 17 and you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have made this wealth for me.’ 18 But you shall remember the LORD your God, for he is the one who gives you power to make wealth, to establish his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

19 If you do forget the LORD your God and follow other gods, serve them, and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the LORD makes perish before you, so you shall perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.