Deuteronomy · Chapter 8

[ edit] Al maundement þat I comaunde to þee to day be war biſili þat þow doo, þat ȝe mowen lyue, and þat ȝe ben multiplied, and goon yn, ȝe weelden þe loond, for þe which þe Lord haþ ſworn to ȝoure fadres. And þow ſhalt recorde of al þe weie, bi þe which þe Lord þi God haþ lad þee fourti wintir, bi deſeert, þat he traueyle þee, and tempte; and weren knowun þat in þin inwitte weren ſtyryd, wheþer þow woldiſt kepe þe heeſtis of hym, or noo. He trauelde þee wiþ ſcarſenes, and ȝaf to þee meet manna, þe which vnknewe þow, and þi fadres, þat he ſhewe to þee, þat not in oonly breed lyueþ man, but in eche word of God, þat goþ out of þe mouþ of þe Lord.

Þi cloþinge, wiþ þe which þow were couerd, for eelde faylide not, and þi foot was not vndur bryſſed, loo! þe fourtiþ ȝeer is; þat þow aȝen þenke in þin herte, for as a man techiþ his ſone, ſo þe Lord þi God tauȝte þee, þat þow kepe þe heeſtis of þe Lord þi God, and goo in þe weies of hym, and drede hym.

Forſoþe þe Lord þi God ſhal lede þee into a good lond, þe lond of ryuers, and of watrys, and of welles, in whos feeldis and hillis breken out gedrynges of flodes; þe loond of whete, and of barly, and of vynes, in þe which figis, and poomgernettis, and olyues growen; þe loond of oyle and of hony; where wiþ out eny ſcarſenes þow ſhalt eete þi breed, and þow ſhal ful vſe þe plente of alle þinges; whos ſtones ben yren, and of þe hillis of it ben doluen metallys of braſſe; þat whanne þow eetiſt, and were fulfillid, þow bleſſe to þe Lord þi God for þe beſt loond þat he haþ ȝeue to þee.

Kepe wel, and bewarre, leſt eny tyme þow forȝete þe Lord þi God, and myſleue þe heeſtis of hym, and domes, and cerymoyns, þat Y comaunde to þee to day; leſt after þat þow etiſt, and were fillid, feyr howſes bildiſt, and dwellidiſt in hem, and haſt droues of oxen, and flockis of ſheep, and plente of ſiluer, and of gold, and of alle þinges, þin herte be reryd, and haue no mynde of þe Lord þi God, þat haþ lad þee out of þe loond of Egipte, and of þe hows of ſeruage, and þi leder was in greet wildernes, and feerful, in þe which was ſerpent þurȝ blaſt brennynge, and ſcorpioun, and dipſas, þat is, an eddre þat whom he bitiþ, he makeþ þurȝ þreſte die, and noon algatis watris; þe which ladde out ryueres of þe mooſt hard ſtoon, and fedde þee wiþ manna in wildernes, þe which knewen not þi fadres.

And after þat he trauelde þee, and ſtrengþide, at þe eende he hadde mercy of þee, leſt þow ſeidiſt in þin herte, My ſtrengþe, and myȝt of myn hoond alle þes þingis to me han ȝeuen. But record þow of þe Lord þi God, þat he ſtrengþes haþ ȝeue to þee, þat he fulfille his couenaunt, vp þe which he haþ ſworne to þi fadris, as þe preſent day ſhewiþ. If forſoþe forȝeten of þe Lord þi God, folwediſt alien goddis, and herye hem, and honoure, loo! now Y before ſeye to þee, þat vtterly þow ſhalt periſhe; as þe gentilis, þat þe Lord dyde awey in þin entre, ſo and ȝe ſhulen periſhe, if inobeiſhaunt ȝe ſhulen be to þe voys of þe Lord ȝoure God.