8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land,
a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters
welling up in valleys and hills,
8:8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and
pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
8:9 a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where
you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose
hills you may mine copper.
8:10 You shall eat your fill and bless the LORD your God for
the good land that he has given you.
8:11 Take care that you do not forget the LORD your God, by
failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes,
which I am commanding you today.
8:12 When you have eaten your fill and have built fine
houses and live in them,
8:13 and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and
your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is
multiplied,
8:14 then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery,
8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness,
an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water
flow for you from flint rock,
8:16 and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your
ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the
end to do you good.
8:17 Do not say to yourself, "My power and the might of my
own hand have gotten me this wealth."
8:18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives
you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he
swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.
