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God's Gracious Dealings

¹ "Every commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you ^(C1)may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your fathers.² "And ^(C1)you shall remember always all the ways which the LORD your God has ^(C2)led you these forty years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and ^(C3)test you, to know what was in your heart (mind), whether you would keep His commandments or not.³ "He humbled you and allowed you to be hungry and fed you with manna, a substance which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, so that He might make you understand by personal experience that ^(C1)man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.⁴ "^(C1)Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your feet swell these forty years.⁵ "Therefore, ^(C1)know in your heart (be fully cognizant) that the LORD your God disciplines and instructs you just as a man disciplines and instructs his son.⁶ "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk that is, to live each and every day in His ways and fear and worship Him with awe-filled reverence and profound respect. ^(VR1)7 "For ^(C1)the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;⁸ a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;⁹ a land where you will eat bread without shortage, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.¹⁰ "When ^(C1)you have eaten and are satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ "Beware that you do not ^(C1)forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and His judgments (precepts) and His statutes which I am commanding you today;¹² otherwise, ^(C1)when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,¹³ and when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have increases,¹⁴ then your heart will become lifted up by self-conceit and arrogance and you will ^(C1)forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.¹⁵ "He led you through ^(C1)the great and terrible wilderness, with its ^(C2)fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who ^(C3)brought water for you out of the flinty rock.¹⁶ "He fed you manna in the wilderness, a substance ^(C1)which your fathers did not know, so that He might humble you by dependence on Him and that He might ^(C2)test you, to do good things for you at the end.¹⁷ "Otherwise, ^(C1)you may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.'¹⁸ "But you shall remember with profound respect the LORD your God, for ^(C1)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers, as it is this day.¹⁹ "And it shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and serve them and worship them, ^(C1)I testify against you today that you will most certainly perish.²⁰ "Like the nations which the LORD causes to perish before you, so ^(C1)shall you perish; because you would not listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God.