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Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of Deuteronomy—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “Every commandment that I am commanding you today YOU should be careful to keep,1 in order that YOU may continue living2 and indeed multiply and go in and take possession of the land about which Jehovah swore to YOUR forefathers.3
  2. And you must remember all the way that Jehovah your God made you walk these forty years in the wilderness,4 in order to humble you,5 to put you to the test6 so as to know what was in your heart,7 as to whether you would keep his commandments or not.
  3. So he humbled you and let you go hungry8 and fed you with the manna,9 which neither you had known nor your fathers had known; in order to make you know that not by bread alone does man live but by every expression of Jehovah’s mouth does man live.10
  4. Your mantle did not wear out upon you, nor did your foot become swollen these forty years.11
  5. And you well know with your own heart that just as a man corrects his son, Jehovah your God was correcting you.12
  6. ¶ “And you must keep the commandments of Jehovah your God by walking in his ways13 and by fearing him.14
  7. For Jehovah your God is bringing you into a good land,15 a land of torrent valleys of water, springs and watery deeps[a] issuing forth in the valley plain16 and in the mountainous region,
  8. a land of wheat and barley and vines and figs and pomegranates,17 a land of oil olives and honey,18
  9. a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land the stones of which are iron and out of the mountains of which you will mine copper.
  10. ¶ “When you have eaten and satisfied yourself,19 you must also bless20 Jehovah your God for the good land that he has given you.21
  11. Watch out for yourself that you may not forget22 Jehovah your God so as not to keep his commandments and his judicial decisions and his statutes that I am commanding you today;23
  12. for fear that you may eat and indeed satisfy yourself, and you may build good houses and indeed dwell in them,24
  13. and your herd and your flock may increase, and silver and gold may increase for you, and all that is yours may increase;
  14. and your heart may indeed be lifted up25 and you may indeed forget Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves;26
  15. who caused you to walk through the great and fear-inspiring wilderness,27 with poisonous[b] serpents28 and scorpions[c] and with thirsty ground that has no water; who brought forth water for you out of the flinty rock;29
  16. who fed you with manna30 in the wilderness, which your fathers had not known, in order to humble you31 and in order to put you to the test so as to do you good in your afterdays;32
  17. and you do say in your heart, ‘My own power and the full might of my own hand have made this wealth for me.’33
  18. And you must remember Jehovah your God, because he is the giver of power to you to make wealth;34 in order to carry out his covenant that he swore to your forefathers, as at this day.35
  19. ¶ “And it must occur that if you should at all forget Jehovah your God and you should actually walk after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I do bear witness against YOU today that YOU people will absolutely perish.36
  20. Like the nations that Jehovah is destroying from before YOU, that is the way YOU will perish, because YOU will not listen to the voice of Jehovah YOUR God.37

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “And watery deeps (great quan­tities of water).” Heb., u·theho·mothʹ, pl., as in Sam.
  2. ^ Or, “fiery; inflammation-causing.” LXX, “stinging; biting”; Vg, “fiery (burning) in breath.”
  3. ^ Lit., “And fighter.” Heb., weʽaq·ravʹ; Lat., et scorʹpi·o.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 5:32; Ps 119:4; 1Th 4:1
  2. ^ Pr 3:2
  3. ^ Ge 15:18
  4. ^ De 2:7; 29:5; Am 2:10
  5. ^ Ps 101:5; Lu 18:14; 1Pe 5:6
  6. ^ Ex 16:4; 20:20
  7. ^ De 13:3; Ps 139:23; Pr 17:3
  8. ^ Ex 16:3
  9. ^ Ex 16:31; Ps 78:24
  10. ^ Mt 4:4
  11. ^ De 29:5; Ne 9:21
  12. ^ 2Sa 7:14; Pr 3:12; 1Co 11:32; Heb 12:6; Re 3:19
  13. ^ De 5:33; 2Ch 6:31; Ps 128:1; Lu 1:6
  14. ^ 1Sa 12:24
  15. ^ Ex 3:8; Le 26:4; De 11:12; Ne 9:25
  16. ^ De 11:11
  17. ^ Nu 13:23
  18. ^ Eze 20:6
  19. ^ De 6:11
  20. ^ Ps 103:2; 134:1
  21. ^ 1Ch 29:14
  22. ^ Ps 106:21
  23. ^ De 6:12
  24. ^ De 32:15; Ho 13:6; Je 22:14
  25. ^ De 9:4; 1Co 4:7
  26. ^ Ps 106:21
  27. ^ De 1:19; Je 2:6
  28. ^ Nu 21:6
  29. ^ Nu 20:11; Ps 78:15; 105:41; 114:8; 1Co 10:4
  30. ^ Ex 16:35; Jn 6:31, 49
  31. ^ De 8:2
  32. ^ 2Co 4:17; Heb 12:11; 1Pe 1:7
  33. ^ Ho 12:8; Hab 1:16; 1Co 4:7
  34. ^ Ps 127:1; Pr 10:22; Ho 2:8
  35. ^ De 7:12
  36. ^ De 4:26; 30:18; Jos 23:13; 1Sa 12:25
  37. ^ Da 9:11, 12; Am 3:2

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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