You shall faithfully observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you today, that you may thrive and increase and be able to possess the land that יהוה promised on oath to your fathers.
Remember the long way that your God יהוה has made you travel in the wilderness these past forty years, in order to test you by hardships to learn what was in your hearts: whether you would keep the divine commandments or not.
[God] subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, in order to teach you that a human being does not live on bread alone, but that one may live on anything that יהוה decrees.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויענך
156
וירעבך
308
ויאכלך
87
אתהמן
496
אשר
501
לאידעת
515
ולא
37
ידעון
140
אבתיך
433
למען
190
הודיעך
115
כי
30
לא
31
עלהלחם
183
לבדו
42
יחיה
33
האדם
50
כי
30
עלכלמוצא
287
פייהוה
116
יחיה
33
האדם
50
Deuteronomy 8:4
Gematria: 2605
שמלתךלאבלתהמעליךורגלךלאבצקהזהארבעיםשנה
The clothes upon you did not wear out, nor did your feet swell these forty years.
Word-by-Word Analysis
שמלתך
790
לא
31
בלתה
437
מעליך
170
ורגלך
259
לא
31
בצקה
197
זה
12
ארבעים
323
שנה
355
Deuteronomy 8:5
Gematria: 2677
וידעתעםלבבךכיכאשרייסראישאתבנויהוהאלהיךמיסרך
Bear in mind that your God יהוה disciplines you just as a householder householder See the first note at 1.31. disciplines his son. as a householder disciplines his son See the second note at 1.31.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידעת
490
עםלבבך
164
כי
30
כאשר
521
ייסר
280
איש
311
אתבנו
459
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
מיסרך
330
Deuteronomy 8:6
Gematria: 3356
ושמרתאתמצותיהוהאלהיךללכתבדרכיווליראהאתו
Therefore keep the commandments of your God יהוה: walk in God’s ways and show reverence.
Take care lest you forget your God יהוה and fail to keep the divine commandments, rules, and laws which I enjoin upon you today.
Word-by-Word Analysis
השמר
545
לך
50
פןתשכח
858
אתיהוה
427
אלהיך
66
לבלתי
472
שמר
540
מצותיו
552
ומשפטיו
451
וחקתיו
530
אשר
501
אנכי
81
מצוך
156
היום
61
Deuteronomy 8:12
Gematria: 3053
פןתאכלושבעתובתיםטביםתבנהוישבת
When you have eaten your fill, and have built fine houses to live in,
Word-by-Word Analysis
פןתאכל
581
ושבעת
778
ובתים
458
טבים
61
תבנה
457
וישבת
718
Deuteronomy 8:13
Gematria: 2044
ובקרךוצאנךירביןוכסףוזהבירבהלךוכלאשרלךירבה
and your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has prospered,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובקרך
328
וצאנך
167
ירבין
272
וכסף
166
וזהב
20
ירבהלך
267
וכל
56
אשרלך
551
ירבה
217
Deuteronomy 8:14
Gematria: 2988
ורםלבבךושכחתאתיהוהאלהיךהמוציאךמארץמצריםמביתעבדים
beware lest lest Heb. pen; moved down from v. 12 for clarity. your heart grow haughty and you forget your God יהוה —who freed you from the land of Egypt, the house of bondage;
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its seraph . saraph uncertain. Cf. Num. 21.6–8. serpents and scorpions, a parched land with no water in it, who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock;
Translation Notes
*seraph Cf. Isa. 14.29; 30.6. — Others “fiery”; exact meaning of Heb
Remember that it is your God יהוה who gives you the power to get wealth, in fulfillment of the covenant made on oath with your fathers, as is still the case.