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Deuteronomy 8:13

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and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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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This verse in Deuteronomy 8

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

when you eat and are satisfied

on Deuteronomy 8:12-14

Verse 1 promised that they may "live and multiply", and verse 13 uses that Hebrew verb three times, over herds and flocks, silver and gold. What was promised is what endangers them.

This site's exposition

your silver and gold increase

The list climbs from herds and flocks to silver and gold and then to all that you have. The verse is one of a run of when clauses, and verse 14 supplies the then.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,.... Having good pasture for them in so fruitful a land: and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied; by trading with other nations: and all that thou hast is multiplied; children, servants, and substance.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

The yod in yirbeyun (multiply) is in place of a heh. 22 For the root of yirbeyun is resh, bet, heh.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 8:13:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And you will forget that you were a slave and your heart was downcast.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 8:14:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְקָֽרְךָ֤and herd your

    uvekarechaH1241 →183 times

  • וְצֹֽאנְךָ֙and flock your

    vetzonekhaH6629 →274 times

  • יִרְבְּיֻ֔ןthey will increase !

    yirbeyunH7235 →227 times

  • וְכֶ֥סֶףand silver

    vekhesefH3701 →403 times

  • וְזָהָ֖בand gold

    vezahavH2091 →389 times

  • יִרְבֶּה־it will increase

    yirbeh-H7235 →227 times

  • לָּ֑ךְof you

    lakh

  • וְכֹ֥לand all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לְךָ֖[belongs] to <the> you

    lekha

  • יִרְבֶּֽה׃it will increase

    yirbehH7235 →227 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Job 1:3

    and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

    it leads to

    • Job 42:12

      So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

    • Job 29:25

      I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

    • Judges 6:3

      Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

    • Proverbs 10:22

      The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

    • 1 Kings 4:30

      Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

  • Through

    Psalms 39:6

    Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

    it leads to

    • Luke 12:20–21

      But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

    • Ecclesiastes 2:26

      To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…

    • James 4:14

      You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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