1   Everie commandement, that I command thee this day, take diligent heede that thou doe it: that you may liue, and be multiplied, and entring in may possesse the Land, for the which our Lord sware to your fathers.

2   And thou shalt remember al the iourney, through the which the Lord thy God hath brought thee fourtie yeares by the desert, that he might afflict and proue thee, and that the thinges that were in thy hart might be made knowen, whether thou wouldest keepe his commandementes or not.

3   He afflicted thee with penurie, and gaue thee for meate Manna, which thou knewest not nor thy fathers: for to shew vnto thee that ^notenot in bread onlie a man liue, but in euerie word that procedeth from the mouth of God.

4   Thy rayment, wherwith thou wast couered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foote is not worne, loe this is the fourtith yeare.

5   That thou mayest recount in thy hart, that as a man disciplineth his sonne, so the Lord thy God hath disciplined thee,

6   that thou shouldest keepe the c&obar;mandementes of the Lord thy God, & walke in his wayes, and feare him.

7   For the Lord thy God wil bring thee in vnto a good land, a land of riuers & waters and of fountaynes: in the plains wherof and mountaynes deepe floudes gush out:

8   a land of wheate, of barley & vineyardes, wherein figge trees and pomegranates, and oliueyardes doe grow: a land of oyle and honie.

9   Where without any penurie thou shalt eate thy bread, and enioy abundance of al thinges: whose stones are yron, and out of the mountaynes therof are digged metalles of brasse:

10   that when thou hast eaten, and art ful, thou mayest blesse the Lord thy God for the excellent land, which he hath geuen thee.

11   Obserue, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandementes and iudgementes and ceremonies, which I command thee this day:

12   lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodlie houses, and dwelled in them,

13   and shalt haue heardes of oxen and flockes of sheepe, of gold and siluer, and of al thinges plentie,

14   thy hart be lifted vp, and thou remember not the Lord

Precepts and Iudgementes. thy God, that brought thee out of the Land of Ægypt, out of the house of seruitude:

15   and was thy conductor in the huge and terrible wildernesse, wherein was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and ^note the dipsas, and no waters at al: who brought forth riuers out of the hardest rocke,

16   and fed thee with Manna in the wildernesse, which thy fathers knew not. And after he had afflicted and proued thee, at the last he had mercie vpon thee,

17   lest thou shouldest say in thy hart: Myne owne force, and the strength of myne owne hand, haue atchieued al these thinges for me.

18   But remember the Lord thy God, that he hath geuen thee strength, that he might fulfil his couenant, concerning which he sware to thy fathers, as this present day sheweth.

19   But if forgetting the Lord thy God, thou shalt folow strange goddes, and shalt serue and adore them: behold now I foretel thee that thou shalt perish vtterly.

20   As the Nations, which our Lord destroyed at thyne entrie, so shal you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

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