11. Be careful not to forget the Lord, your God, by failing to keep his commandments and ordinances and statutes which I enjoin on you today:
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 serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
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, “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.
19. But if you do forget the Lord, your God, and go after other gods, serving and bowing down to them, I bear witness to you this day that you will perish utterly.
20. Like the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the Lord, your God.