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"All of the commandments that I [am] commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.
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And you shall remember all [of] the way that Yahweh your God led you [during] these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what [is] in your heart, whether you would [diligently] keep his commandments or not.
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And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and [then] he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all [that] goes out of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live.
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Your clothing did not wear out {on you}, and your feet did not swell [during] these forty years.
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And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, [so] Yahweh your God [is] disciplining you.
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So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.
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For Yahweh your God [is] bringing you to a good land [with] streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys and in the hills,
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[to] a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranate trees, a land of olive trees, olive oil and honey;
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[to] a land where you may eat food in it {without scarcity}; you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones [are] iron and from its mountains you can mine copper.
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And you will eat, and {you will be satisfied}, and you will bless Yahweh your God because [of] the good land that he has given to you.
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"Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God [by] not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I [am] commanding you {today},