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God's Gracious Dealings

¹ "All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you ^(C1)may live and increase, and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.² "^(C1)And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has ^(C2)led you in the wilderness these forty years, in order to humble you, ^(C3)putting you to the test, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.³ "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 ^(F1)understand that ^(C1)man shall not live on bread alone, but man shall live on everything that comes out of the mouth of the LORD.⁴ "^(C1)Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.⁵ "^(C1)So you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.⁶ "Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to ^(F1)fear Him.⁷ "For ^(C1)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;⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;⁹ 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.¹⁰ "When ^(C1)you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

¹¹ "Be careful that you do not ^(C1)forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments, His ordinances, and His statutes which I am commanding you today;¹² otherwise, ^(C1)when you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live in them,¹³ and when your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold increase, and everything that you have increases,¹⁴ then your heart will ^(F1)become proud and you will ^(C1)forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of ^(F2)slavery;¹⁵ He who led you through ^(C1)the great and terrible wilderness, with its ^(C2)fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who ^(C3)brought water for you out of the rock of flint.¹⁶ "In the wilderness it was He who fed you manna ^(C1)which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and in order to ^(C2)put you to the test, to do good for you ^(F1)in 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 are to remember the LORD your God, for ^(C1)it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore 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 and worship them, ^(C1)I testify against you today that you will certainly perish.²⁰ "Like the nations that the LORD eliminates from you, so ^(C1)you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.