Deuteronomy 8:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land-a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 8:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Deuteronomy 8:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

Deuteronomy 8:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,

Deuteronomy 8:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 8:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Deuteronomy 8:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.

Deuteronomy 8:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

Deuteronomy 8:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me."

Deuteronomy 8:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 8:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 8:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 8)

Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 9:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.

Deuteronomy 9:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

The people are strong and tall-Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: "Who can stand up against the Anakites?"

Deuteronomy 9:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

Deuteronomy 9:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

After the Lord your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, "The Lord has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness." No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is going to drive them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the Lord your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

At Horeb you aroused the Lord's wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you.

Deuteronomy 9:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

The Lord gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the Lord proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

And the Lord said to me, "I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed!

Deuteronomy 9:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 9)

Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they."