¹² lest, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and lived in them, ¹³ and your herds and flocks have increased, your silver and gold has increased, and all your property has increased, ¹⁴ you then become haughty of heart and forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery; ¹⁵ he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph^[a] serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock^{(A) 16} and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end. ¹⁷ Otherwise, you might say in your heart,^(B) “It is my own power and the strength of my own hand that has got me this wealth.” ¹⁸ Remember then the Lord, your God, for he is the one who gives you the power to get wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant he swore to your ancestors.

²⁰ For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten and are satisfied and have grown fat, if they turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant,