Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 8:13
and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab, outlining the spiritual risks that accompany material abundance as the people stand before entering the Promised Land.
The words — The text employs יִרְבֶּה (yirbeh, "it will increase") and יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן (yirbeuyn, "they will increase") to describe the multiplication of silver, gold, livestock, and all possessions.
The thread — The accumulation of wealth appears in Job 1:3, which catalogs Job’s specific livestock and servants, and Genesis 13:1, which records Abram departing Egypt with his wife and all his possessions.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to recognize that multiplied resources create a specific condition where pride and spiritual amnesia become likely, demanding deliberate remembrance of God’s prior deliverance.
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The Hebrew words
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;
Cross-references
- 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.
- Genesis 13:1 So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
- Luke 12:13 Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
- 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.