| NET Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised to your ancestors. | 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 the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not. | 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. |
| 3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD's mouth. | 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 nor did your feet swell all these forty years. | 4"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years. |
| 5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the LORD your God disciplines you. | 5Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. |
| 6So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere 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 to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in 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, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees 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 may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can 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." |
| 10You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of 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 sure you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that 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 your fill, when you build and occupy good houses, | 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them, |
| 13when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything, | 13when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase, |
| 14be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery, | 14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God, |
| 15and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and | 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, |
| 16fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you. | 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. |
| 17Be careful not to say, "My own ability and skill have gotten me this wealth." | 17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.' |
| 18You must remember the LORD your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day. | 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. |
| 19Now if you forget the LORD your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated. | 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. |
| 20Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him. | 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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