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Deuteronomy 8:4-12 New International Version (NIV)

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

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

6. Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him.

7. For 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;

8. a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

9. a 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.

10. When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

11. Be 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.

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

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