Deuteronomy 8

kol-hammitsvah asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom tishmerun la'asot lema'an tikhyun urevitem uvatem virishtem et-ha'arets asher-nishba Adonai la'avotekhem

You shall faithfully observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, that you may thrive and increase and be able to possess the land that GOD promised on oath to your fathers.

vezakharta et-kol-hadderekh asher holikhekha Adonai elohekha zeh arba'im shanah bammidbar lema'an annotekha lenassotekha lada'at et-asher bilvavekha hatishmor mitsvotav im-lo

Remember the long way that the ETERNAL your God has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, in order to test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep the commandments or not.

vaye'annekha vayyarivekha vayya'akhilkha et-hamman asher lo-yadata velo yade'un avotekha lema'an hodi'akha ki lo al-hallekhem levaddo yikhyeh ha'adam ki al-kol-motsa fi-Adonai yikhyeh ha'adam

[God] subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, in order to teach you that a human being does not live on bread alone, but that one may live on anything that GOD decrees.

simlatekha lo valetah me'alekha veraglekha lo vatseqah zeh arba'im shanah

The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.

veyadata im-levavekha ki ka'asher yeyasser ish et-beno Adonai elohekha meyasserekka

Bear in mind that the ETERNAL your God disciplines you just as a man disciplines his son.

veshamarta et-mitsvot Adonai elohekha lalekhet bidrakhayw uleyirah oto

Therefore keep the commandments of the ETERNAL your God: walk in God’s ways and show reverence.

ki Adonai elohekha mevi'akha el-erets tovah erets nakhale mayim ayanot utehomot yotse'im babbiqah uvahar

For the ETERNAL your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill;

erets khittah use'orah vegefen ute'enah verimmon erets-zet shemen udevash

a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey;

erets asher lo vemiskenut tokhal-bah lekhem lo-tekhsar kol bah erets asher avaneha varzel umeharareha takhtsov nekhoshet

a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

ve'akhalta vesava'eta uverakhta et-Adonai elohekha al-ha'arets hattovah asher natan-lakh

When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the ETERNAL your God for the good land given to you.

hishamer lekha pen-tishkakh et-Adonai elohekha levilti shemor mitsvotayw umishpatayw vekhuqqotayw asher anokhi metsavvekha hayyom

Take care lest you forget the ETERNAL your God and fail to keep the commandments, rules, and laws that I enjoin upon you today.

pen-tokhal vesava'eta uvattim tovim tivneh veyashaveta

When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in,

uveqarekha vetsonekha yirbeyun vekhesef vezahav yirbeh-llakh vekhol asher-lekha yirbeh

and your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered,

veram levavekha veshakhakhta et-Adonai elohekha hammotsi'akha me'erets mitsrayim mibbet avadim

beware lest your heart grow haughty and you forget the ETERNAL your God—who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;

hammolikhekha bammidbar haggadol vehannora nakhash saraf ve'aqrav vetsimma'on asher en-mayim hammotsi lekha mayim mitsur hakhallamish

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its seraph serpents and scorpions, a parched land with no water in it, who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock;

hamma'akhilkha man bammidbar asher lo-yade'un avotekha lema'an annotekha ulema'an nassotekha lehetivkha be'akharitekha

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had never known, in order to test you by hardships only to benefit you in the end—

ve'amarta bilvavekha kokhi ve'otsem yadi asah li et-hakhayil hazzeh

and you say to yourselves, “My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me.”

vezakharta et-Adonai elohekha ki hu hannoten lekha koakh la'asot khayil lema'an haqim et-berito asher-nishba la'avotekha kayyom hazzeh

Remember that it is the ETERNAL your God who gives you the power to get wealth, in fulfillment of the covenant made on oath with your fathers, as is still the case.

vehayah im-shakhoakh tishkakh et-Adonai elohekha vehalakhta akhare elohim akherim va'avadtam vehishtakhavita lahem ha'idoti vakhem hayyom ki avod tovedun

If you do forget the ETERNAL your God and follow other gods to serve them or bow down to them, I warn you this day that you shall certainly perish;

kaggoyim asher Adonai ma'avid mippenekhem ken tovedun eqev lo tishme'un beqol Adonai elohekhem

like the nations that GOD will cause to perish before you, so shall you perish—because you did not heed the ETERNAL your God.