Deuteronomy 8:13

and when your herds and flocks grow larger, and your silver and gold accumulates, and all your possessions increase,

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In The King James Version

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

In Context

12For when you eat and are full, when you build beautiful houses to live in,

14then you will become proud, and you will forget the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt, out of the prison-house of slavery.

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Cross References

Job 1:3He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, as well as many servants. He was more wealthy than anyone else in the East.

Luke 12:13Someone in the crowd asked Jesus, “Teacher, please tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:11-20

Cautions Relating to Worldly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all… Read the whole commentary →

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