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You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers.

You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth.

Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

For the LORD your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which he has given you.

Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to the LORD your God’s voice.

إِحرِصوا أَن تَعمَلوا بِكُلِّ الوَصِيَّةِ الَّتي آمُرُكَ بِها اليَومَ، لِكَي تَحْيَوا وتَكثُروا وتَدخُلوا وتَرِثوا الأَرضَ الَّتي أَقسَمَ الرَّبُّ علَيها لِآبائِكم

وٱذكُرْ كُلَّ الطَّريقِ الَّتي سَيَّرَكَ فيها الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُكَ في البَرِّيَّةِ هٰذه السِّنينَ الأَربَعين، لِيُذَلِّلَكَ ويَمتَحِنَكَ فيَعرِفَ ما في قَلبِكَ هل تَحفَظُ وَصاياه أَم لا

فذَلَّلَكَ وأَجاعَكَ وأَطعَمَكَ المَنَّ الَّذي لم تَعرِفْه أَنتَ ولا عَرَفَه آباؤُكَ، لِكَي يُعْلِمَكَ أَنَّه لا بالخُبزِ وَحدَه يَحْيا الإِنْسان، بل بِكُلِّ ما يَخرُجُ مِن فَمِ الرَّبِّ يَحْيا الإِنْسان

ثَوبُكَ لم يَبْلَ علَيكَ، ورِجلُكَ لم تَتَوَرَّمْ في هٰذه السِّنينَ الأَربَعين

فٱعلَمْ في قَلبِكَ أَنَّه كما يُؤَدِّبُ الرَّجُلُ ٱبنَه يُؤَدِّبُكَ الرَّبُّ إِلٰهُكَ

فٱحفَظْ وَصايا الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِكَ لِتَسيرَ في سُبُلِه وتَتَّقِيَه

فإِنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ مُدخِلُكَ أَرضًا طَيِّبَة، أَرضًا ذاتَ سُيولِ ماءٍ وعُيونٍ وغِمارٍ تَتَفَجَّرُ في الوادي والجَبَل

أَرضَ حِنطَةٍ وشَعيرٍ وكَرْمٍ وتينٍ ورُمَّان، أَرضَ زَيتٍ وعَسَل

أَرضًا لا تأكُلُ فيها خُبزَكَ بِتَقْتير، ولا يُعوِزُكَ فيها شيءٌ، أَرضًا حِجارَتُها حَديد ومِن جِبالِها تَقلَعُ النُّحاس

فتأكُلُ وتَشبَعُ وتُبارِكُ الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ لِأَجْلِ الأَرضِ الطَّيَّبةِ الَّتي أَعْطاكَ إِيَّاها

تَنَبَّهْ لِئَلَّا تَنْسى الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ، غيرَ حافِظٍ لِوَصاياه وأَحْكامِه وفَرائِضِه الَّتي أَنا آمُرُكَ بِها اليَوم

مَخافةَ أَنَّكَ، إِذا أَكَلتَ وشَبِعتَ وبَنَيتَ بُيوتًا جَميلةً وسَكَنتَها

وكَثُرَ بَقَرُكَ وغَنَمُكَ وفِضَّتُكَ وذَهَبُكَ وكُلُّ ما لَكَ

يَشمَخُ قَلبُكَ فتَنْسى الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ الَّذي أَخرَجَكَ مِن أَرضِ مِصْر، مِن دارِ العُبودِيَّة

والَّذي سَيَّرَكَ في البَرِّيَّةِ العَظيمةِ الرَّهيبَة، حَيثُ الحَيَّاتُ اللَّادِغةُ والعَقارِبُ والعَطَش، وحَيثُ لا ماءَ فَجَّرَ لَكَ الماءَ مِن صَخرَةِ الصَّوَّان

وأَطعَمَكَ في البَرِّيَّةِ المَنَّ الَّذي لم يَعرِفْه آباؤُكَ، لِيُذَلِّلَكَ ويَمتَحِنَكَ، لِيُحسِنَ إِلَيكَ في آخِرَتِكَ

ولِئَلَّا تَقولَ في قَلبِكَ: إِنَّ قُوَّتي وقُدرَةَ يَدي صَنَعتا لي هٰذه الثَّروَة

بل تَذكُرُ الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ، فإِنَّه هو الَّذي يُعْطيكَ قُوَّةً لِتَصنَعَ بِها الثَّروَة، لِكَي يُثَبِّتَ عَهدَه الَّذي أَقسَمَ بِه لِآبائِكَ كما في هٰذا اليَوم

وإِن نَسيتَ الرَّبَّ إِلٰهَكَ وسِرتَ وَراءَ آلِهَةٍ أُخْرى وعَبَدتَها وسَجَدتَ لَها، فأَنا شاهِدٌ عليكُمُ اليَومَ بأَنَّكم تَهلِكونَ هَلاكًا

كالأُمَمِ الَّتي يُهلِكُها الرَّبُّ مِن أَمامِكم، هٰكذا تَهلِكونَ أَنتُم أيضًا لِأَنَّكم لم تَسمَعوا لِصَوتِ الرَّبِّ إِلٰهِكم