| Holman Christian Standard Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1You must carefully follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase, and may enter and take possession of the land the LORD swore to your fathers. | 1"Be careful to observe every command that I'm instructing you today, in order that you may live, increase, and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors. |
| 2Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these 40 years in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands. | 2Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert, to humble and test you in order to make known what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. |
| 3He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then He gave you manna to eat, which you and your fathers had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. | 3He humbled you, causing you to be hungry, yet he fed you with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, in order to teach you that human beings are not to live by food alone—instead human beings are to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. |
| 4Your clothing did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these 40 years. | 4"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years. |
| 5Keep in mind that the LORD your God has been disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. | 5Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. |
| 6So keep the commands of the LORD your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him. | 6Observe the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him, |
| 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams of water, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills; | 7because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land—a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills. |
| 8a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; | 8It's a land filled with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It's a land filled with olive oil and honey— |
| 9a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper. | 9a land without scarcity. You'll eat food in it and lack nothing. It's a land where its rocks are iron and you can dig copper from its mountains." |
| 10When you eat and are full, you will praise the LORD your God for the good land He has given you." | 10"When you have eaten and are satisfied, bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you. |
| 11Be careful that you don't forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His command--the ordinances and statutes--I am giving you today. | 11Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I'm commanding you this day. |
| 12When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in, | 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them, |
| 13and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases, | 13when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase, |
| 14be careful that your heart doesn't become proud and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery. | 14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God, |
| 15He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you. | 15who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who led you through the vast and dangerous desert, that parched land without water, with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. He brought water out of solid rock for you, |
| 16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. | 16and fed you in the desert with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, to humble and test you so that things go well with you later. |
| 17You may say to yourself, 'My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me,' | 17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.' |
| 18but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers, as it is today. | 18But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today. |
| 19If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish. | 19If you neglect the LORD your God, follow other gods, and serve and worship them, I testify to you today that you will certainly be destroyed. |
| 20Like the nations the LORD is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God." | 20Just like the nations whom the LORD destroyed before you, so will you be destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God." |
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