Deuteronomy 8:12
Good News Translation
When you have all you want to eat and have built good houses to live in

New Revised Standard Version
When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them,

Contemporary English Version
you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses to live in.

New American Bible
lest, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built fine houses and lived in them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,

Lest when

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Deuteronomy 31:20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Proverbs 30:9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

Hosea 13:5,6 I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness. . . .

and hast built

Ecclesiastes 2:4 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

Jeremiah 22:14,15 Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion. . . .

Ezekiel 11:3 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

Amos 5:11 Therefore because you robbed the poor, and took the choice prey from him: you shall build houses with square stone, and shall not dwell in them: you shall plant most delightful vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

Haggai 1:4 Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?

Luke 17:28 Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built.

Context
Remember the LORD Your God
11Take heed, and beware lest at any time thou forget the Lord thy God, and neglect his commandments and judgments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day: 12Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,13And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:13
And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things,

Proverbs 30:9
Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

Hosea 13:6
According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Deuteronomy 8:11
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