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What does Deuteronomy 8:6 mean?

"You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him."

— Deuteronomy 8:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

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Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

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You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

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You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

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For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

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a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

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a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

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