1. Be careful to observe this whole commandment that I enjoin on you today, that you may live and increase, and may enter in and possess the land which the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.
2. Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness, so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.
3. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your ancestors, so you might know that it is not by bread alone that people live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.
4. The clothing did not fall from you in tatters, nor did your feet swell these forty years.
5. So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord, your God, disciplines you.
6. Therefore, keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, by walking in his ways and fearing him.
7. For the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys,
8. a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, of olive trees and of honey,
9. a land where you will always have bread and where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones contain iron and in whose hills you can mine copper.
10. But when you have eaten and are satisfied, you must bless the Lord, your God, for the good land he has given you.
11. Be careful not to forget the Lord, your God, by failing to keep his commandments and ordinances and statutes which I enjoin on you today: