New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 8:1-6 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.