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Deuteronomy 31:20

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

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ASV

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

KJV

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּֽי־ki-ifH3588 →
אֲבִיאֶ֜נּוּ'a.vi.'E.nuI will bring itH935 →
אֶֽל־'el-intoH413 →
הָאֲדָמָ֣ה׀ha.'a.da.Mahthe landH127 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whichH834 →
נִשְׁבַּ֣עְתִּיnish.Ba'.tiI sworeH7650 →
לַאֲבֹתָ֗יוla.'a.vo.Tavto ancestors itsH1 →
זָבַ֤תza.Vatflowing ofH2100 →
חָלָב֙cha.LavmilkH2461 →
וּדְבַ֔שׁu.de.Vashand honeyH1706 →
וְאָכַ֥לve.'a.Khaland it will eatH398 →
וְשָׂבַ֖עve.sa.Va'and it will be satisfiedH7646 →
וְדָשֵׁ֑ןve.da.Shenand it will grow fatH1878 →
וּפָנָ֞הu.fa.Nahand it will turnH6437 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
אֱלֹהִ֤ים'E.lo.HimgodsH430 →
אֲחֵרִים֙'a.che.RimotherH312 →
וַעֲבָד֔וּםva.'a.va.Dumand they will serve themH5647 →
וְנִ֣אֲצ֔וּנִיve.Ni.'a.Tzu.niand they will spurn meH5006 →
וְהֵפֵ֖רve.he.Ferand it will breakH6565 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
בְּרִיתִֽי׃be.ri.Ticovenant myH1285 →

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Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.Malachi 3:7Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’Hosea 13:6When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.Nehemiah 9:25–26They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.Deuteronomy 6:10–12And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,Psalms 78:10They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Ezekiel 34:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.Ezekiel 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’Numbers 13:27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!Deuteronomy 8:12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,Jeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,Nehemiah 9:35For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—Psalms 73:7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.Psalms 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

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