5. Remember that the Lord your God corrects and punishes you just as a father disciplines his children.
6. So then, do as the Lord has commanded you: live according to his laws and obey him.
7. The Lord your God is bringing you into a fertile land — a land that has rivers and springs, and underground streams gushing out into the valleys and hills;
8. a land that produces wheat and barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and honey.
9. There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them, and from its hills you can mine copper.
10. You will have all you want to eat, and you will give thanks to the Lord your God for the fertile land that he has given you.
11. “Make certain that you do not forget the Lord your God; do not fail to obey any of his laws that I am giving you today.
12. When you have all you want to eat and have built good houses to live in
13. and when your cattle and sheep, your silver and gold, and all your other possessions have increased,