and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
Parallel translations
- WEB and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have 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;
- NKJV and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
- NASB and when your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold increase, and everything that you have increases,
- NLT and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else, be careful!
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Quick answer
As herds, flocks, silver, gold, and possessions multiply, the spiritual risk grows. Increasing wealth tests the heart's loyalty.
Overview
Moses traces how growing prosperity in every form can subtly turn the heart. The accumulation of wealth is not condemned, but its danger is named. The repeated emphasis on multiplying possessions prepares for the warning against pride and forgetting God, a caution echoed in Jesus' teaching on riches.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Job 1:3and 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.
- Gen 13:1–5So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
- Luke 12:13–21Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”
- Ps 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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