Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt 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,
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
Towb
Bayith
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
11 But beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and ordinances which I command thee this day: 12 yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, 13 and when thy beasts and thy sheep are waxed many and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied,
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be so full, I deny thee, and say, "What fellow is the LORD?" And lest I, being constrained through poverty, fall unto stealing and foreswear the name of my God.
Deuteronomy 28:47
And because thou servedest not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with a good heart for the abundance of all things,
Deuteronomy 32:15
"And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, then they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my covenant.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made gorgeous fair works. I builded me houses, and planted vineyards.
Jeremiah 22:14-15
He thinketh in himself, 'I will build me a wide house, and gorgeous parlors.' He causeth windows to be hewn therein, and the ceilings and joists maketh he of Cedar, and painteth them with Sinoper.
Ezekiel 11:3
saying, 'Tush, there is no destruction at hand, let us build houses: this Jerusalem is the cauldron, and we be the flesh.'
Hosea 13:5-6
I took diligent heed of thee in the wilderness, that dry land.
Amos 5:11
Forsomuch then as ye oppress the poor, and rob him of his best sustenance: therefore, where as ye have builded houses of square stone, ye shall not dwell in them. Marvelous pleasant vineyards shall ye plant; but the wine of them shall ye not drink. And why?
Haggai 1:4
"Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?
Luke 17:28
Likewise also, as it chanced, in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built.