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Deuteronomy 8:13 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; "

Deuteronomy 8:13

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11 Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;

13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

14 then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

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Deuteronomy 6:11

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"and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;"

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Sirach 28:24

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"As you hedge your possession about with thorns, and secure your silver and your gold,"

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Deuteronomy 1:10

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"The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude."

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Isaiah 60:5

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"Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you."

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Genesis 30:30

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"For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. The LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”"

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Job 1:3

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"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."

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Deuteronomy 8:1

"You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers."

Deuteronomy 8:2

"You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not."

Deuteronomy 8:3

"He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth."

Deuteronomy 8:4

"Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years."

Deuteronomy 8:5

"You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you."

Deuteronomy 8:6

"You shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him."

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