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Deuteronomy 8:8-14 Common English Bible (CEB)

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

9. a land where you will eat food without any shortage—you won’t lack a thing there—a land where stone is hard as iron and where you will mine copper from the hills.

10. You will eat, you will be satisfied, and you will bless the Lord your God in the wonderful land that he’s given you.

11. But watch yourself! Don’t forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commands or his case laws or his regulations that I am commanding you right now.

12. When you eat, get full, build nice houses, and settle down,

13. and when your herds and your flocks are growing large, your silver and gold are multiplying, and everything you have is thriving,

14. don’t become arrogant, forgetting the Lord your God:the one who rescued you from Egypt, from the house of slavery;

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