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Deuteronomy 8:3-12 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

3. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with the manna, which thou hadst not known, and which thy fathers knew not; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by everything that goeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.

4. Thy clothing grew not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

5. And know in thy heart that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee;

6. and thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

7. For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;

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

9. a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper.

10. And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

11. Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;

12. lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

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