New English Translation

Deuteronomy 8:3-12 New English Translation (NET)

3. So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth.

4. Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

5. Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

6. So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

7. For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

8. a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

9. a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

10. You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.

11. Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

12. When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,