Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it,
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,
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;
World English Bible
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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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Banah
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References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
11 Beware lest thou forget LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day. 12 Lest, when thou have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt in it, 13 and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou have is multiplied,
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 30:9
lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because thou served not LORD thy 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. Thou have grown fat. Thou have grown thick. Thou 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 they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and de
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made for me great works. I built for me houses. I planted for me vineyards.
Jeremiah 22:14-15
who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts out windows for himself, and it is overlaid 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 thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Amos 5:11
Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?
Luke 17:28
And likewise as it happened in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.