Deuteronomy 8:1

1 You must carefully perform all of the commandment that I am commanding you right now so you can live and multiply and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 8:1 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 8:1

All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye
observe to do
It is repeated over and over again, to impress it on their minds, and to show the importance and necessity of it, how greatly it was expected from them, and how much it was incumbent on them:

that ye may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the
Lord sware unto your fathers;
for their temporal life, and the mercies and comforts of it, the multiplication of their offspring, and of their substance, their entrance into the land of Canaan, possession of it, and continuance in it, all depended on their obedience to the commands of God; see ( Deuteronomy 19:20 ) .

Deuteronomy 8:1 In-Context

1 You must carefully perform all of the commandment that I am commanding you right now so you can live and multiply and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors.

2 Remember the long road on which the LORD your God led you during these forty years in the desert so he could humble you, testing you to find out what was in your heart: whether you would keep his commandments or not.

3 He humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you the manna that neither you nor your ancestors had ever experienced, so he could teach you that people don't live on bread alone. No, they live based on whatever the LORD says.

4 During these forty years, your clothes didn't wear out and your feet didn't swell up.

5 Know then in your heart that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a father disciplines his children.