Ekev

Therefore keep the commandments of your God יהוה: walk in God’s ways and show reverence.

For your God יהוה is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill;

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

a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

Take care lest you forget your God יהוה and fail to keep the divine commandments, rules, and laws which I enjoin upon you today.

When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in,

and your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered,

beware lest your heart grow haughty and you forget your God יהוה —who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its seraph serpents and scorpions, a parched land with no water in it, who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock;

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had never known, in order to test you by hardships only to benefit you in the end—

and you say to yourselves, “My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me.”

Remember the long way that your God יהוה has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, in order to test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep the divine commandments or not.

Remember, never forget, how you provoked your God יהוה to anger in the wilderness: from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have continued defiant toward יהוה.

Remember what your God יהוה did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.

Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt—

Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of ages past;
Ask your parent, who will inform you,
Your elders, who will tell you: