1I skal nøje overholde alle de befalinger, jeg i dag pålægger jer. Gør I det, vil I få lov at tage det land i besiddelse, Herren lovede jeres forfædre, og I vil få et godt liv og blive et stort folk.2Husk på, hvordan Herren i 40 år førte sit folk gennem ørkenen for at ydmyge dem og sætte dem på prøve, for at se, om de var villige til at adlyde ham.3Han ydmygede dem ved først at lade dem sulte og derefter give dem manna, en form for mad, som hverken de eller deres forfædre havde set før, for at lære dem, at et menneske ikke lever af brød alene, men af hvert ord, som Gud taler.4I alle de 40 år blev deres tøj ikke slidt op, og deres fødder ikke opsvulmede.5I må forstå, at når Herren straffede dem, gjorde han det til deres eget bedste, nøjagtig som når forældre opdrager deres børn.6Adlyd Herren, jeres Guds, befalinger, gå på hans veje og hav ærefrygt for ham.7Herren vil føre jer ind i et godt land, et frodigt land med bakker og dale, med floder og kilder, der gennemstrømmer landet,8et land med hvede og byg, med vinranker, figentræer, granatæbletræer, oliventræer og honning,9et land med masser af føde og uden mangel på noget, et land, hvor der findes jernmalm, og hvor I kan bryde kobber i bjergene.10Når I har spist jer mætte i landets overflod, skal I lovprise Herren, jeres Gud, for det gode land, han har givet jer.11Men pas på, at I ikke midt i jeres overflod glemmer Herren, jeres Gud, så I ikke længere holder hans love og befalinger.12-13Når I spiser jer mætte og oplever fremgang, når I har bygget prægtige huse, når jeres velstand øges, og jeres besætninger vokser,14må I passe ekstra på, at I ikke bliver selvsikre, så I glemmer Herren, der reddede jer fra at være slaver i Egypten.15Tag jer i agt, at I ikke glemmer den Gud, der førte sit folk gennem den store og farlige ørken, hvor der er giftige slanger og skorpioner, og som midt i det udtørrede land lod vand springe frem fra den nøgne klippe.16Han gav dem manna i ørkenen, mad, som deres forfædre aldrig har smagt, for at ydmyge dem og sætte dem på prøve for senere at kunne velsigne dem.17Derved ville han undgå, at folket i fremtiden ville tro, at deres fremgang skyldes dem selv og deres egen dygtighed.18Husk altid på, at jeres velstand kommer fra Herren, jeres Gud, der trofast holder fast ved den pagt, han oprettede med jeres forfædre.19Men hvis I glemmer Herren, jeres Gud, så I dyrker andre guder, kan jeg forsikre jer om, at det bliver jeres undergang,20og at I bliver udryddet på samme måde, som Herren vil udrydde de folk, han jager bort foran jer. Sådan går det, hvis I er ulydige imod Herren, jeres Gud.
1“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. (5.Mos 4,1; 5.Mos 5,32; 5.Mos 6,1)2And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. (2.Mos 15,25; 2.Mos 16,4; 5.Mos 1,3; 5.Mos 2,7; 5.Mos 8,16; 5.Mos 29,5; Dom 3,4; 2.Krøn 32,31; Amos 2,10)3And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word[1] that comes from the mouth of the Lord. (2.Mos 16,2; 2.Mos 16,12; 2.Mos 16,14; 2.Mos 16,35; 4.Mos 11,6; 4.Mos 21,5; Matt 4,4; Luk 4,4; Joh 6,49)4Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. (5.Mos 29,5; Neh 9,21)5Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. (2.Sam 7,14; Ord 3,12; Ord 29,17; Hos 10,10; Heb 12,5; Åb 3,19)6So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.7For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, (5.Mos 11,10)8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, (4.Mos 20,5)9a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.10And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.11“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,12lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, (5.Mos 6,11; 5.Mos 28,47; 5.Mos 32,15; Ord 30,9; Hos 13,6)13and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,14then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, (Salm 78,11; Salm 106,21; 1.Kor 4,7)15who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, (2.Mos 17,6; 4.Mos 20,11; 4.Mos 21,6; 5.Mos 1,19; 5.Mos 32,13; Salm 78,15; Salm 114,8; Es 30,6; Hos 13,5)16who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. (2.Mos 16,15; 5.Mos 8,3; Jer 24,5; Heb 12,11)17Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ (5.Mos 9,4)18You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (5.Mos 7,8; 5.Mos 7,12; Ord 10,22; Hos 2,8)19And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. (5.Mos 4,26; 5.Mos 30,18)20Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. (Dan 9,11)