Deuteronomy 8 NLT ISV Parallel

◄ Deuteronomy 8 ►

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1“Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the LORD swore to give 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 how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey 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.

3Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by 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.

4For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell.

4"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years.

5Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the LORD your God disciplines you for your own good.

5Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

6“So obey 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 of flowing streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the 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.

8It is a land of wheat and barley; of grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates; 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—

9It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It is a land where iron is as common as stone, and copper is abundant in the hills.

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 have eaten your fill, be sure to 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.

11“But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the LORD your God and disobey his commands, regulations, and decrees 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.

12For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in,

12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them,

13and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else, be careful!

13when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase,

14Do not become proud at that time and forget the LORD your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt.

14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God,

15Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock!

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 with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.

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.

17He did all this so you would never say to yourself, ‘I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.’

17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.'

18Remember the LORD your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful, in order to fulfill the covenant he confirmed to your ancestors with an oath.

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.

19“But I assure you of this: If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, you will certainly be destroyed.

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 as the LORD has destroyed other nations in your path, you also will be destroyed if you refuse to 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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