1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply and enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to your ancestors.
2Remember the entire journey the LORD your God led you for forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you and test you to know what was in your heart — whether you would keep his commands or not.
3He humbled you by letting you go hungry, and then he fed you with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, in order to make you understand that people do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5Know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
6So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and fearing him.
7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land — a land with flowing streams and springs, with water welling up from the valleys and hills,
8a land of wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey,
9a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing, a land whose rocks contain iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
10When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
11Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am giving you today.
12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,
13when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase, and all you have multiplies,
14then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
15He led you through the vast and frightening wilderness — with its venomous snakes and scorpions, its thirsty and waterless terrain. He brought water out of hard rock for you.
16He fed you manna in the wilderness — something your ancestors had never known — in order to humble and test you, so that things would go well for you in the end.
17You may say to yourself, 'My own power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.'
18But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
19If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
20Like the nations the LORD is destroying before you, you too will be destroyed if you do not obey the LORD your God.