8 You must consistently follow the instructions that I’m giving you today, so that you all can enter and occupy the land that Yahweh promised to your ancestors, and live there and multiply. 2 Remember the way that your god Yahweh led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you—to test you to know whether or not you were sincere about obeying his instructions. 3 He humbled you by making you hungry and feeding you some stuff that neither you nor your ancestors had heard of, in order to teach you that people don’t just need food, but can only properly live by following what Yahweh says.[ref] 4 For the entire forty years, your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t swell up from walking in the desert. 5 Don’t forget that your god Yahweh disciplines you, just like a human father disciplines his children. 6 So follow your god Yahweh’s instructions. Live how he’s told you, and always honour him 7 because he’s bringing you into a good land—a land with streams and fountains, and springs both in the valleys and in the hills. 8 It’s a land with wheat and barley, grapevines and fig trees, pomegranates and olive trees, and honey—9 a land with plenty of food where you won’t lack anything. There’s iron in the rocks, and copper in the hills. 10 You’ll eat and be full, and you’ll thank your god Yahweh for the good land that he’s given you.