Deuteronomy Chapter 8

Moses further encourages obedience.

8:1 Y‘all take heed to the instruction which I urge y’all to keep today, that y’all may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
swore to your forefathers.
8:2 And you will remember the entire path which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
led y’all these forty years in the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ desert, south, speech, wilderness For more info click here
, in order to afflict y’all, [and] to test y’all, to know what [was] in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
8:3 And He has afflicted y’all, and caused y’all to hunger, then fed y’all with mannaמָן
Transliteration mān Pronunciation mawn means ‘What is it?’ the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings For more info click here
, which y’all didn’t know, and your forefathers didn’t know either ; so that he might make y’all know that man doesn’t live by bread alone, but by every [word] that proceeds out of the mouth of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
does man live.
8:4 Your clothes didn’t wear out on y’all, and your feet didn’t swell, these forty years.
8:5 You will also know in your heart, that, like a father chastises his son, [so] YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
chastises y’all.
8:6 Then you will keep the commandments of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, to walk in his paths, and to revere him.
8:7 Because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
bringing y’all to a good land, a land with streams of water, with springs and underground water coming out of valleys and hills ;
8:8 A land of wheat, barley, grape, fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of olives, and date honey ;
8:9 A land in which you will eat bread without poverty, and you will lack nothing in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills you will dig copper.
8:10 When you have eaten and are full, then you will bless YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
for the good land which He will give y’all.
8:11 Take care or you’ll forget YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, in not keeping his commandments, or His judgements, and His statutes, which I instruct y’all today
8:12 Unless [when] you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived [in them];
8:13 And [when] your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and everything you have is multiplied ;
8:14 Then it lifts up your heart, and you forget YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, who brought y’all  out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery ;
8:15 Who led y’all through that great and terrible wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ desert, south, speech, wilderness For more info click here
, [with] poisonous snakes, and scorpions, and thirst, where there is no water ; who brought y’all water out of the flinty rock ;
8:16 Who fed y’all in the wildernessמִדְבָּר
Transliteration: miḏbār Pronunciation; mid-bawr’ desert, south, speech, wilderness For more info click here
with mannaמָן
Transliteration mān Pronunciation mawn means ‘What is it?’ the bread from Heaven that fed the Israelites for 40 years of wilderness wanderings For more info click here
, which your forefathers didn’t know not, that he might afflict y’all, and that he might test y’all, to do y’all good in your end;
8:17 And you say in your heart, My strength and the might of [my] hand has gotten me this wealth.
8:18 But you will remember YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
because [it is] He that gives y’all strength to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which He swore to your forefathers, like [it is] today.
8:19 And it shall be, if you do forget at all YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
, and go after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that y’all shall surely perish.
8:20 Like the nations which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
destroys before your face, so shall y’all perish ; because y’all wouldn’t listen to the voice of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
is a genre of Piyyut…. This name of this genre, meaning “your Elohim”, comes from the closing word of Numbers 15:41: “…to be your God; I am Yahweh your God.” for more info click here Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
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