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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 8:12

that when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built goodly houses, and have lived in them ;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Forgetting God;   Ingratitude;   Obedience;   Pride;   Prosperity;   Riches;   Temptation;   The Topic Concordance - Remembrance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forgetting God;   Houses;   Ingratitude to God;   Sciences;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boasting;   Farming;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Manna;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 9;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
King James Version
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Lexham English Bible
lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them,
English Standard Version
lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,
New Century Version
When you eat all you want and build nice houses and live in them,
New English Translation
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
Amplified Bible
otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,
New American Standard Bible
otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live in them,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses & dwelt therein,
Legacy Standard Bible
lest you eat and are satisfied and build good houses and live in them,
Contemporary English Version
you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses to live in.
Complete Jewish Bible
Otherwise, after you have eaten and are satisfied, built fine houses and lived in them,
Darby Translation
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses and live in them.
George Lamsa Translation
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses, and dwell in them;
Good News Translation
When you have all you want to eat and have built good houses to live in
Christian Standard Bible®
When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that (whan thou hast eaten & art fylled, and hast buylded goodly houses, & dwellest therin,
American Standard Version
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea, and when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast buylt goodly houses and dwelt therein:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
King James Version (1611)
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;
English Revised Version
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Berean Standard Bible
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
lest aftir that thou hast ete, and art fillid, hast bildid faire housis, and hast dwellid in tho,
Young's Literal Translation
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
Update Bible Version
or else, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Webster's Bible Translation
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;
New King James Version
lest--when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
New Living Translation
For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in,
New Life Bible
When you have eaten and are filled, and have built good houses to live in,
New Revised Standard
When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
lest thou eat, and be satisfied, - and goodly houses, thou build and inhabit;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,
Revised Standard Version
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,

Contextual Overview

10 And you shall eat and be satisfied; and you shall bless Jehovah your God in the good land which He has given you. 11 Take heed to yourself, lest you forget Jehovah your God so as not to keep His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I am commanding you today; 12 that when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built goodly houses, and have lived in them ; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold have multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then it rises up into your heart, and you forget Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves; 15 who led you through the great and dreadful wilderness, with burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirsty ground where no water is ; who brought you water out of the flinty rock; 16 who made you eat manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know; that He might humble you and that He might prove you, to do you good at your latter end; 17 that you not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth. 18 But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives to you power to get wealth; that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 And it shall be, if you shall forget Jehovah your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that perishing you shall perish;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lest when: Deuteronomy 28:47, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 32:15, Proverbs 30:9, Hosea 13:5, Hosea 13:6

and hast built: Ecclesiastes 2:4, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 22:15, Ezekiel 11:3, Amos 5:11, Haggai 1:4, Luke 17:28

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 32:25 - his heart Job 31:24 - General Psalms 62:10 - riches Proverbs 11:28 - that Jeremiah 2:31 - We are lords Luke 12:19 - Soul Luke 17:27 - General Acts 14:17 - filling James 5:1 - ye Revelation 3:17 - have need

Cross-References

Genesis 8:2
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Genesis 8:3
And the waters retreated from the earth, going and retreating. And the waters diminished at the end of a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8:5
And the waters were going and falling until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
Genesis 8:6
And it happened, at the end of forty days, even Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
Genesis 8:7
And he sent out a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Genesis 8:8
He also sent out from him the dove, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 8:10
And he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.
Psalms 27:14
Hope in Jehovah; be strong and He will make strong your heart; yea, hope in Jehovah!
Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for Him.
Isaiah 25:9
And one shall say in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is Jehovah; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full,.... Not only once and again, but continually, day after day, being indulged with great plenty:

and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt [therein]; who for forty years had only dwelt in tents, moving from place to place in the wilderness.


 
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