| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the LORD swore to your fathers. | 1"Be careful to observe every command that I'm instructing you today, in order that you may live, increase, and enter and take possession of the land that the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors. |
| 2And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. | 2Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way these 40 years in the desert, to humble and test you in order to make known what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. |
| 3So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. | 3He humbled you, causing you to be hungry, yet he fed you with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, in order to teach you that human beings are not to live by food alone—instead human beings are to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. |
| 4Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. | 4"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years. |
| 5You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. | 5Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. |
| 6“Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. | 6Observe the commands of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him, |
| 7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; | 7because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land—a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills. |
| 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; | 8It's a land filled with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates. It's a land filled with olive oil and honey— |
| 9a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. | 9a land without scarcity. You'll eat food in it and lack nothing. It's a land where its rocks are iron and you can dig copper from its mountains." |
| 10When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you. | 10"When you have eaten and are satisfied, bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you. |
| 11“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, | 11Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I'm commanding you this day. |
| 12lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; | 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them, |
| 13and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; | 13when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase, |
| 14when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; | 14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God, |
| 15who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; | 15who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who led you through the vast and dangerous desert, that parched land without water, with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. He brought water out of solid rock for you, |
| 16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— | 16and fed you in the desert with manna that neither you nor your ancestors had known, to humble and test you so that things go well with you later. |
| 17then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’ | 17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.' |
| 18“And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. | 18But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today. |
| 19Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. | 19If you neglect the LORD your God, follow other gods, and serve and worship them, I testify to you today that you will certainly be destroyed. |
| 20As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God. | 20Just like the nations whom the LORD destroyed before you, so will you be destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God." |
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