| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1"All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers. | 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. |
| 2"You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing 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. |
| 3"He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of 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. |
| 4"Your clothing 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. |
| 5"Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. | 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, |
| 7"For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in 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 where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; 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." |
| 10"When you have eaten and are satisfied, 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 and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding 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. |
| 12otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived 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 gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, | 13when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase, |
| 14then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. | 14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God, |
| 15"He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. | 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, |
| 16"In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you 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. |
| 17"Otherwise, you may say in your heart, 'My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.' | 17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.' |
| 18"But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm 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. |
| 19"It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will 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. |
| 20"Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen 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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