NET Bible
"When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,"
— Deuteronomy 8:12, NET Bible
“Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;”
“lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ”
“lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;”
“Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,”
“And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;”
“Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;”
a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
You will eat your fill and then praise the LORD your God because of the good land he has given you.
Exhortation to Remember That Blessing Comes from God Be sure you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,
be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,
and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and