New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 8:8-16 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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:

12. lest, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and lived in them,

13. and your herds and flocks have increased, your silver and gold has increased, and all your property has increased,

14. you then become haughty of heart and forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery;

15. he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock

16. and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.