Deuteronomy 8:1-10

1You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors.

2Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

3So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth.

4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.

6So you must keep his commandments, live according to his standards, and revere him.

7For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

10You will eat your fill and then praise the Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.