New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 8:5-11 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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: