Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them;
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;
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
Interlinear
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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 that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 12 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them; 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, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you served not the LORD your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; 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 unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works; I built houses; I planted vineyards:
Jeremiah 22:14-15
That says, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cuts him out windows for it; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Ezekiel 11:3
Who say, It is not near for us to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
Hosea 13:5-6
I did know you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Amos 5:11
Since therefore you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, and this house lie in ruins?
Luke 17:28
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;