Deuteronômio 8

1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. 3 He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. 4 Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years. 5 You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you. 6 You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper. 10 You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end; 17 and lest you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth." 18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

19 It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

Kia Whiwhi ai he Whenua Pai

1 Kia mahara kia mahia ngā whakahau katoa e whakahaua nei e ahau i tēnei rā, kia ora ai koutou, kia tini ai, kia tae ai hoki, kia whiwhi ai ki te whenua i oati rā a Ihowā ki ō koutou mātua. 2 Kia mahara hoki ki te ara katoa i ārahi ai a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a koe i te koraha, i ēnei tau e whā tekau, kia iro ai koe, hei whakamātautau hoki i a koe, kia mōhiotia ai ngā aha noa i roto i tōu ngākau, ka pupuri rānei koe i āna whakahau, kāhore rānei. 3 Ā, whakawhiua ana koe e ia, whakamatea ana ki te kai, whāngaia ana ki te mana, kīhai nei i mōhiotia e koe, kīhai anō i mōhiotia e ōu mātua; kia whakamōhio ai ia i a koe e kore te tangata e ora i te taro kau, engari mā ngā kupu katoa e puta mai ana i te māngai o Ihowā ka ora ai te tangata. 4 Kīhai tōu kākahu i tawhitotia ki runga ki a koe, kīhai anō hoki tōu waewae i pupuhi, i ēnei tau e whā tekau. 5 Ā, ka mahara koe i roto i tōu ngākau, e papaki ana a Ihowā, tōu Atua i a koe, e pērā ana me te tangata e papaki ana i tāna tama.

6 Nā, kia mau ki ngā whakahau a Ihowā, a tōu Atua, haere hoki i āna huarahi me te wehi anō ki a ia. 7 Nā te mea e kawe ana a Ihowā, tōu Atua, i a koe ki te whenua pai, ki te whenua o ngā awa wai, o ngā puna, o ngā wai hōhonu, e pupū mai ana i ngā raorao, i ngā maunga; 8 ki te whenua o te wīti, o te pārei, o te wāina, o te piki, o te pamekaranete; ki te whenua o te hinu ōriwa, o te honi, 9 ki te whenua e kore ai e onge tāu taro e kai ai koe, e kore rawa ai koe e hapa i tētahi mea; ki te whenua he rino ōna kōhatu, ka keri anō koe i te parāhi i roto i ōna maunga. 10 Ā, ka kai koe, ka mākona, nā, kia whakapai atu koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, mō te whenua pai kua hōmai e ia ki a koe.

Kia Tūpato kei Wareware ki a Ihowā

11 Kia tūpato kei wareware ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, kei kore koe e pupuri i āna whakahau, i āna whakaritenga, i āna tikanga, e whakahaua nei e ahau ki a koe i tēnei rā. 12 Kei kai koe, ā, ka mākona, kei hanga hoki i ngā whare papai, ā, noho iho; 13 ā, ka tini haere āu kau, me āu hipi ka nui hoki te hiriwa me te kōura ki a koe, ā, ka tini haere ngā mea katoa ki a koe; 14 nā, ka kake tōu ngākau, ā, ka wareware koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, i whakaputa mai rā i a koe i te whenua o Īhipa, i te whare pononga; 15 i arataki hoki i a koe i tēnā koraha nui, whakamataku, i reira nei ngā nākahi tū a-ahi me ngā kopiona, me te whenua matewai, kāhore o reira wai. I whakaputa mai anō i te wai mōu i roto i te kōhatu kiripaka; 16 i whāngai i a koe i te koraha ki te mana, kīhai nei i mōhiotia e ōu mātua; kia iro ai koe, kia whakamātautau ai hoki ia i a koe, ā, kia pai ai te tukunga iho ki a koe. 17 Ā, ka mea koe i roto i tōu ngākau, "Nā tōku kaha, nā te uaua hoki o tōku ringa, i whiwhi ai ahau ki ēnei taonga." 18 Engari, kia mahara ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, nāna hoki i hōmai te kaha ki a koe i whiwhi ai ki te taonga; kia mana ai tāna kawenata i oati ai ia ki ōu mātua, ā, ka rite nei ināianei.

19 Nā, ki te wareware koe ki a Ihowā, ki tōu Atua, ā, ka whai ki ngā atua kē, ka mahi ki a rātou, ka koropiko atu hoki ki a rātou, māku e kī atu ki a koutou i tēnei rā, ka ngaro rawa koutou. 20 Ka rite ki ngā iwi e whakangaromia nei e Ihowā i tō koutou aroaro, ka pērā anō koutou, ka ngaro; mō koutou kīhai i rongo ki te reo o Ihowā, o tō koutou Atua.