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"All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and increase, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

"And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, in order to humble you, putting you to the test, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

"And He humbled you and let you go hungry, and fed you with the manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, in order to make you understand that man shall not live on bread alone, but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the LORD.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

"Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

"So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

"Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in valleys and hills;

For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

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

A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

a land where you will eat food without shortage, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

"When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.