Deuteronomy 8:1-10

International Standard Version

Remember the Lord’s Provisions

8 “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. ² Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert to humble^[a] and test you in order to make known what was in your heart—whether or not you would keep his commands. ³ He humbled^[b] 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.

⁴ “The clothes you wore^[c] did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years. ⁵ Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you. ⁶ Observe the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing^[d] him, ⁷ because the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land—a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills. ⁸ It’s a land filled^[e] with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It’s a land filled^[f] with olive oil and honey— ⁹ a 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.”

Remember the Source of Blessings

¹⁰ “When you have eaten and are satisfied, bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.