Verse 17
Deuteronomy 8:17
World English Bible
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and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֖ בִּ/לְבָבֶ֑/ךָ כֹּחִ/י֙ וְ/עֹ֣צֶם יָדִ֔/י עָ֥שָׂה לִ֖/י אֶת הַ/חַ֥יִל הַ/זֶּֽה
English Translation
And you will say in your heart, "My strength and the might of my hand have made for me this power."
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Chapter 8 Context
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You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God (Elohim) has led you these forty years in the w...
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Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
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a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and hone...
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a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land wh...
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lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all t...
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then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God (Elohim), who brought you out of...
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who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirs...
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who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you,...
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and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
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