1 "Be careful to carry out every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and go in and possess the land the LORD swore to your fathers.
2 Remember the whole way the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.
3 He humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
4 Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your feet did not swell, all these forty years.
5 Understand, then, in your heart that the LORD your God disciplines you just as a man disciplines his son.
6 So keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and fearing him.
7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,
9 a land where you will eat bread without shortage and will lack nothing, a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.
11 "Watch yourself, so that you do not forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commandments, his rules, and his statutes that I am giving you today.
12 Otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, when you have built fine houses and live in them,
13 when your herds and flocks have grown large, your silver and gold have increased, and everything you own has multiplied,
14 your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.
15 He led you through the vast and fearful wilderness, with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a parched land with no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.
16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had never known, to humble you and test you, so that in the end he might do you good.
17 Otherwise you may say to yourself, 'My own strength and the power of my own hand have gained me this wealth.'
18 Remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the strength to gain wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is today.
19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I warn you today that you will surely perish.
20 Like the nations the LORD is destroying before you, so you will perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.