and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
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And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
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and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Deuteronomy 8:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 1:3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Genesis 13:1-5 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name. Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
- Luke 12:13-21 One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?” He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.” He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
- Psalms 39:6 “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 8:13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks…
Deu 8:13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Ver. 13. When thy silver and thy gold.] Which what is it else but white and red mould, the guts and garbage of the earth? Wonder it is surely, that treading upon it we should so much esteem it. Well, if silver and gold be our happiness, then it is in the earth, and so, which is strange, nearer hell, which the Scripture placeth in the deep, than heaven, which all know to be aloft; and so nearer the devil than God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then thine heart be lifted up,.... As the heart…
Then thine heart be lifted up,.... As the heart is apt to be when riches increase; hence the advice in Ti1 6:17.
and thou forget the Lord thy God; from whom all good things come, and who can take them away when he pleases, and therefore should be ever kept in mind, for ever looked to and trusted in for the continuance of them; yet such is the evil heart of man, and such the stupefying nature of riches, that they bring on forgetfulness of the author of them, lead off from dependence on him and obedience to him; in order to prevent which, an enumeration is given of wonderful instances of divine goodness to Israel, as follows:
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which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; into a land abounding with all the above good things, and therefore it must be the highest ingratitude to forget such a God, and disobey his commands.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues to speak to the Israelites as if they are one person. (See: Forms of You)
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your herds and flocks
"your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats"
multiply
increase greatly in number
all that you have is multiplied
This can be stated in active form. AT: "you have many more things" or "you have many more possessions" (See: Active or Passive)
your heart becomes lifted up
Here "heart" represents the inner person. To become prideful and no longer obey Yahweh is spoken of as if the person's heart is lifted up. See how you translated a similar phrase in Deuteronomy 8:12. AT: "you become prideful and no longer obey Yahweh" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
who brought you out
Moses begins to remind the Israelites of what they know about Yahweh. (See: Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding)
out of the house of bondage
This is a metaphor for the time they were slaves in Egypt. AT: "out from the place where you were slaves" (See: Metaphor)
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flocks
silver
gold
heart
Egypt
house
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