Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived 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,
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;
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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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 8:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations
11 Be careful! Otherwise, you will forget the LORD your God by failing to keep his commands, ordinances, and statutes that I'm commanding you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them, 13 when your cattle and oxen multiply, when your silver and gold increase,
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 30:9
so that I don't become overfed and deny you by saying, "Who is the LORD?" or so that I don't become poor and steal, and then misuse the name of my God.
Deuteronomy 28:47
"Because you didn't serve the LORD your God joyfully and wholeheartedly, despite the abundance of everything you have,
Deuteronomy 32:15
Jacob dined until satisfied; Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. He grew fat, coarse, and gross, so that he abandoned the God who made him and spurned the Rock that was his salvation.
Deuteronomy 31:20
because after I've brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey that I promised to their ancestors by an oath, they'll eat, grow fat, and then they'll turn to other gods and serve them, while despising me and breaking my covenant.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
With respect to my extravagant works, I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.
Jeremiah 22:14-15
How terrible for him who says, "I'll build a large house for myself with spacious upper rooms, who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it red.'
Ezekiel 11:3
They keep saying, "The right time to build families hasn't yet arrived. The city is the pot and we are the meat.'
Hosea 13:5-6
I took care of you in the wilderness, in a waterless land.
Amos 5:11
"Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously, taxing his grain, building houses of stone in which you won't live and planting fine vineyards from which you won't drink
Haggai 1:4
"Is it the right time for all of you to live in your own paneled houses while this house remains in ruins?"
Luke 17:28
So it was in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.