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Deuteronomy 8:12

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When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

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lest I become satisfied and act deceptively and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I become poor and steal and demean the name of my God.

I increased my possessions: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself.

They say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; the city is a cooking pot and we are the meat in it.’

Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

“Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors – one flowing with milk and honey – and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,

when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,




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