³ He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna,^(A) a food unknown to you and your ancestors, so you might know that it is not by bread alone^[a] that people live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord. ⁴ The clothing did not fall from you in tatters, nor did your feet swell these forty years.^{(B) 5} So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord, your God, disciplines you.^{(C) 6} Therefore, keep the commandments of the Lord, your God, by walking in his ways and fearing him.

Cautions About Prosperity. ^7 (D)For the Lord, your God, is bringing you into a good country, a land with streams of water, with springs and fountains welling up in the hills and valleys, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, of olive trees and of honey, ⁹ a land where you will always have bread and where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones contain iron and in whose hills you can mine copper. ¹⁰ But when you have eaten and are satisfied, you must bless the Lord, your God, for the good land he has given you. ^11 (E)Be careful not to forget the Lord, your God, by failing to keep his commandments and ordinances and statutes which I enjoin on you today: ¹² lest, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and lived in them, ¹³ and your herds and flocks have increased, your silver and gold has increased, and all your property has increased, ¹⁴ you then become haughty of heart and forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that house of slavery; ¹⁵ he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph^[b] serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock^{(F) 16} and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.