New Century Version

Deuteronomy 8:6-12 New Century Version (NCV)

6. Obey the commands of the Lord your God, living as he has commanded you and respecting him.

7. The Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with rivers and pools of water, with springs that flow in the valleys and hills,

8. a land that has wheat and barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey.

9. It is a land where you will have plenty of food, where you will have everything you need, where the rocks are iron, and where you can dig copper out of the hills.

10. When you have all you want to eat, then praise the Lord your God for giving you a good land.

11. Be careful not to forget the Lord your God so that you fail to obey his commands, laws, and rules that I am giving to you today.

12. When you eat all you want and build nice houses and live in them,