Parallel Verses
World English Bible
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
New American Standard Bible
otherwise,
King James Version
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Holman Bible
When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,
International Standard Version
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them,
A Conservative Version
Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it,
American Standard Version
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Amplified
otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,
Bible in Basic English
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
Darby Translation
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
Julia Smith Translation
Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert satisfied, and thou wilt build good houses and thou dwelt;
King James 2000
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them;
Lexham Expanded Bible
lest [when] you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live [in them],
Modern King James verseion
lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,
NET Bible
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
New Heart English Bible
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
The Emphasized Bible
lest thou eat, and be satisfied, - and goodly houses, thou build and inhabit;
Webster
Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;
Youngs Literal Translation
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
Themes
Forgetting God » Prosperity often leads to
Forgetting God » Prosperity leads to
Ingratitude to God » Warnings against
Topics
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 30:9
lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Jeremiah 22:14-15
who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Ezekiel 11:3
who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Hosea 13:5-6
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Haggai 1:4
"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
Luke 17:28
Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;