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"Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.
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And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
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So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
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Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
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You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.
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Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;
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a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
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a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.