| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 1You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers. | 1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors. |
| 2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. | 2Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. |
| 3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. | 3He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. |
| 4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. | 4Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. |
| 5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. | 5Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. |
| 6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him. | 6Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. |
| 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; | 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; |
| 8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; | 8a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; |
| 9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper. | 9a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. |
| 10When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you. | 10When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. |
| 11Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. | 11Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. |
| 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, | 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, |
| 13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, | 13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, |
| 14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. | 14then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. |
| 15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. | 15He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. |
| 16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper. | 16He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. |
| 17You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.” | 17You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." |
| 18But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day. | 18But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today. |
| 19If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. | 19If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. |
| 20Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God. | 20Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God. |
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