1 ARST You must faithfully obey all the commandments that I am giving you today. If you do that, you will live a long time and you will become very numerous. Your people will occupy the land that Yahweh solemnly promised your ancestors{ that he would give to you}. BSB BSB: You 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.
2 ARST And think about how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past 40 years. He{ caused you to have many problems}. This was to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not trust in yourselves. He also wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do, whether you would obey his commandments or not. BSB BSB: Remember 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.
3 ARST So he caused you to have problems. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna,{ food from heaven}, food that you and your parents had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food{ for their bodies}, but{ they also need food for their spirits. This comes from paying attention to} everything that Yahweh says. BSB BSB: He 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.
4 ARST During those 40 years, our clothes did not wear out. Also, our feet did not swell{ from walking through the desert}. BSB BSB: Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
5 ARST Remember that Yahweh our God corrects us and punishes us, like parents correct their children. BSB BSB: So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 ARST So obey the commandments of Yahweh our God. Conduct your lives as he wants you to do and honor him. BSB BSB: Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
7 ARST He is about to bring you into a good land. It has streams that flow down from the hills and flow out of springs in the valleys. BSB BSB: For 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;
8 ARST It is a land on which wheat and barley grow. It has vineyards, fig trees, and pomegranates. It is a land where there are olive trees and honey. BSB BSB: a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
9 ARST It is a land where there will be plenty of food for you. You will have everything you need. It is a land which has iron{ ore} in its rocks and from which you can dig copper{ ore} from its hills. BSB BSB: a 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.
10 ARST { Every day} you will eat until your stomachs are full. You will thank Yahweh our God for the fertile land that he has given you. BSB BSB: When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
11 ARST But{ when that happens}, be sure not to forget Yahweh our God by disobeying his commandments, rules, and regulations that I am giving to you today. BSB BSB: Be 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.
12 ARST Do this even when your stomachs are full{ every day}, and when you have built good houses and are living in them. BSB BSB: Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
13 ARST One day the number of your cattle and sheep will greatly increase. You will accumulate a large amount of silver and gold. The amount of all your other possessions will also greatly increase. BSB BSB: and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
14 ARST Even then, be sure that you do not become proud and forget Yahweh our God. He rescued your parents from being slaves in Egypt and brought them out from there. BSB BSB: then 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.
15 ARST Remember that he guided them while they traveled through that huge and terrible desert. There were poisonous snakes and scorpions there. And remember that the ground was very dry and there was no water. In spite of that, he caused water to flow for them out of solid rock. BSB BSB: He 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.
16 ARST Remember that in that desert he gave your families manna to eat. Manna was food that they had never eaten before. He did this so they would realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them to find out if they would obey him. This is so that he could do many good things for them{ when those difficulties ended}. BSB BSB: He 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.
17 ARST Be sure that you do not think to yourselves that you have acquired all these things by your own power and ability. BSB BSB: You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
18 ARST Remember that it is Yahweh our God who has enabled you to become rich. He does this because he faithfully does what he solemnly promised our ancestors that he would do. BSB BSB: But 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.
19 ARST Today I solemnly warn you: If you forget Yahweh our God and start to worship and serve other gods, then he will certainly destroy you. BSB BSB: If 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.
20 ARST If you do not obey Yahweh our God, then he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people groups against which you will fight. BSB BSB: Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
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