The Preacher's Bible

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers. ²You shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. ³He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Jehovah’s mouth. ⁴Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. ⁵You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Jehovah your God disciplines you. ⁶You shall keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. ⁷For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; ⁸a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; ⁹a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. ¹⁰You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which he has given you. ¹¹Beware lest you forget Jehovah your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; ¹²lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; ¹³and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; ¹⁵who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; ¹⁶who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end; ¹⁷and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” ¹⁸But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

¹⁹It shall be, if you shall forget Jehovah your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. ²⁰As the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Jehovah your God’s voice.