Deuteronomy 8:1-10
Modern English Version
Remember the Lord Your God
8 You must carefully keep all the commandments that I am commanding you today, so that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to your fathers. 2 You must remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 He humbled you and let you suffer hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years. 5 You must also consider in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 Therefore you must keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, 9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
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Deuteronomy 8:1-10
Lexham English Bible
8 “All of the commandments[a] that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.[b] 2 And you shall remember all of the way that Yahweh your God led you during these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what is in your heart, whether you would diligently keep his commandments or not. 3 And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors[c] know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes out[d] of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live. 4 Your clothing did not wear out on you,[e] and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God is disciplining you.[f] 6 So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7 For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys[g] and in the hills,[h] 8 to a land of wheat and barley and vines[i] and fig trees[j] and pomegranate trees,[k] a land of olive trees,[l] olive oil and honey; 9 to a land where you may eat food in it without scarcity;[m] you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones are iron and from its mountains you can mine copper. 10 And you will eat, and you will be satisfied,[n] and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you.
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- Deuteronomy 8:1 Or “every commandment”
- Deuteronomy 8:1 Or “your fathers”
- Deuteronomy 8:3 Or “fathers”
- Deuteronomy 8:3 Or “by all of the going out of”
- Deuteronomy 8:4 Literally “from on you”
- Deuteronomy 8:5 Or “has disciplined you”
- Deuteronomy 8:7 Hebrew “valley”
- Deuteronomy 8:7 Hebrew “hill”
- Deuteronomy 8:8 Hebrew “vine”
- Deuteronomy 8:8 Hebrew “fig tree”
- Deuteronomy 8:8 Hebrew “pomegranate tree”
- Deuteronomy 8:8 Hebrew “olive tree”
- Deuteronomy 8:9 Literally “not in scarcity”
- Deuteronomy 8:10 Literally “you will eat your fill”
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