Deuteronomy 8:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ A land in which you shall eat food without shortage and lack nothing in it; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

Common English Bible

⁹ a land where you will eat food without any shortage—you won’t lack a thing there—a land where stone is hard as iron and where you will mine copper from the hills.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ In that place, without any need, you shall eat your bread and enjoy an abundance of all things: where the stones are like iron, and where ore for brass is dug out of its mountains.

Deuteronomy 8:9 Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:14

With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone also I have provided. To these you must add more.

Joshua 22:8

he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with a great quantity of clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your kindred.”

Deuteronomy 33:25

Your bars are iron and bronze, and as your days, so is your strength.

Job 28:2

Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.

Deuteronomy 8:8

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,

Deuteronomy 8:10

You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you.

Judges 18:10

When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is broad—God has indeed given it into your hands—a place where there is no lack of anything on earth.”

1 Chronicles 22:3

David also provided great stores of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,