Deuteronomy 8:1-10

New International Reader's Version

Remember What the Lord Has Done

8 Make sure you obey every command I’m giving you today. Then you will live, and there will be many of you. You will enter the land and take it as your own. It’s the land the Lord promised to your people of long ago. ² Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way. He guided you in the desert for these 40 years. He wanted to take your pride away. He wanted to test you to know what was in your hearts. He wanted to see whether you would obey his commands. ³ He took your pride away. He let you go hungry. Then he gave you manna to eat. You and your parents had never even known anything about manna before. He tested you to teach you that man doesn’t live only on bread. He also lives on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. ⁴ Your clothes didn’t wear out during these 40 years. Your feet didn’t swell. ⁵ Here is what I want you to know in your hearts. The Lord your God guides you, just as parents guide their children.

⁶ Obey the commands of the Lord your God. Live as he wants you to live. Have respect for him. ⁷ The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land. It has brooks, streams and deep springs of water. Those springs flow in its valleys and hills. ⁸ It has wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey. ⁹ There is plenty of food in that land. You will have everything you need. Its rocks have iron in them. And you can dig copper out of its hills.

¹⁰ When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God. Praise him for the good land he has given you.