Deuteronomy 8:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ a land in which you eat bread without scarcity, in which you do not lack at all, a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you dig 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

“See, in my affliction I have prepared for the House of יהוה  one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is plenty. And I have prepared timber and stone, and you shall add to them.

1 Chronicles 22:3

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Job 28:2

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

Deuteronomy 33:25

“Your sandals are iron and bronze, and your strength as your days.

Deuteronomy 8:10

“And you shall eat and be satisfied, and shall bless יהוה  your Elohim for the good land which He has given you.

Deuteronomy 8:8

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

Joshua 22:8

and spoke to them, saying, “Return to your tents with great riches, and with very much livestock, and with silver, and with gold, and with bronze, and with iron, and with countless garments. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Judges 18:10

“When you go, you are to come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is spacious. For Elohim has given it into your hands, a place in which there is no lack of any matter which is on the earth.”