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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.
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When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.
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"Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
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lest--when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
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when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
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who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;