Deuteronomy 8 NIV ISV Parallel

◄ Deuteronomy 8 ►

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

4"The clothes you wore did not wear out, nor did your feet blister during these 40 years.

5Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

5Be convinced in your heart that as a father disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

6Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in obedience to him and revering 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 with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the 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 with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, 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 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.

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 satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land 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.

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.

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 eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,

12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them,

13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,

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 of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

14then you will become arrogant. You'll neglect the LORD your God,

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.

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,

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.

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.

17You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me."

17You may say to yourselves, 'I have become wealthy by my own strength and by my own ability.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

20Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying 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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