Dual Panel1You must carefully observe every command I give you this day so that you may live and increase in numbers and enter and occupy the land which the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers.
2Remember the whole way by which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness to humble and test you, and to discover whether or not it was in your heart to keep his commandments.
3So he afflicted you with hunger and then fed you on manna which neither you nor your fathers had known before, to teach you that people cannot live on bread alone, but that they live on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4The clothes on your backs did not wear out, nor did your feet blister, all these forty years.
5Take to heart this lesson: that the LORD your God was disciplining you as a father disciplines his son.
6Keep the commandments of the LORD your God, conforming to his ways and fearing him.
7The LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land with streams, springs, and underground waters gushing out in valley and hill,
8a land with wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land with olive oil and honey.
9It is a land where you will never suffer any scarcity of food to eat, nor want for anything, a land whose stones are iron ore and from whose hills you will mine copper.
10When you have plenty to eat, bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
11See that you do not forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commandments, laws, and statutes which I give you this day.
12When you have plenty to eat and live in fine houses of your own building,
13when your herds and flocks, your silver and gold, and all your possessions increase,
14do not become proud and forget the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of that land of slavery;
15he led you through the vast and terrible wilderness infested with venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty, waterless land where he caused water to flow for you from the flinty rock;
16he fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers had never known, to humble and test you, and in the end to make you prosper.
17Nor must you say to yourselves, “My own strength and energy have gained me this wealth.”
18Remember the LORD your God; it is he who gives you strength to become prosperous, so fulfilling the covenant guaranteed by oath with your forefathers, as he does to this day.
19If you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them, I give you a solemn warning this day that you will certainly be destroyed.
20Because of your disobedience to the LORD your God, you will be destroyed as surely as were the nations whom the LORD destroyed at your coming.