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¹Be thou ware diligently, that thou do each commandment which I command to thee today, that ye may live, and be multiplied, and that ye enter, and wield the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers.

²And thou shalt have mind of all the way, by which thy Lord God led thee by forty years, in desert, that he should torment thee, and should assay thee; and that those things that were treated in thy soul should be known, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, either nay.

³And he tormented thee with neediness, and he gave to thee meat, manna to eat, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not, that he should show to thee, that a man liveth not in bread alone, but in each word that cometh out of the Lord’s mouth.

⁴Thy clothes, with which thou were covered, failed not for eldness, and thy foot was not bruised under-neath, lo! the fortieth year is;

⁵that thou think in thine heart, for as a man teacheth his son, so thy Lord God hath taught thee,

⁶that thou keep the commandments of thy Lord God, and go in his ways, and dread him.

⁷For thy Lord God shall lead thee into a good land, into the land of rivers, and of standing waters or ponds, and of wells, in whose fields and mountains the depths of floods break out;

⁸into the land of wheat, of barley, and of vines, in which land fig trees, and pomegranates, and olives come forth; into the land of oil, and honey;

⁹where thou shalt eat thy bread without neediness, and thou shalt use the plenty of all things; of which land the stones be iron, and metals of tin be digged of the hills thereof;

¹⁰that when thou hast eaten, and art full-filled, thou bless thy Lord God for the best land which he hath given to thee.

¹¹Therefore keep thou, and beware, lest any time thou forget thy Lord God, and despise his commandments, and dooms, and ceremonies, which I command to thee today;

¹²lest after that thou hast eaten, and art full-filled, hast builded fair houses, and hast dwelled in them,

¹³and hast droves of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and plenty of silver, and of gold, and of all things,

¹⁴thine heart be then raised, and thou think not upon thy Lord God, that led thee out of the land of Egypt, and from the house of servage,

¹⁵and he was thy leader in the great wilderness and fearful, in which wilder-ness was a serpent burning with blast, and a scorpion, and dipsas, that is, an adder, that maketh them whom he stingeth to die for thirst, and utterly no waters were in the desert, the which Lord brought out streams of the hardest stone,

¹⁶and he fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which manna thy fathers knew not. And after that the Lord had tormented thee, and proved thee, at the last he had mercy on thee,

¹⁷lest thou wouldest say in thine heart, My strength, and the might of mine hand, hath given all these things to me.

¹⁸But think thou upon thy Lord God, that he hath given strengths to thee, that he should fulfill his covenant, of which he swore to thy fathers, as this present day showeth.

¹⁹Forsooth if thou forgettest thy Lord God, and pursuest or followest alien gods, and worshippest them in heart, and honourest them withoutforth, lo! now I before-say to thee, that thou shalt perish utterly;

²⁰as the heathen men perished, which the Lord did away in thine entering, so also ye shall perish, if ye shall be unobedient to the voice of your Lord God.