Deuteronomy 8:12
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New International Version (©2011)
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,

New Living Translation (©2007)
For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in,

English Standard Version (©2001)
lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
otherwise, when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built good houses and lived in them,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you have built beautiful houses and lived in them,

NET Bible (©2006)
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them;

American King James Version
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein;

American Standard Version
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,

Darby Bible Translation
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

English Revised Version
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Webster's Bible Translation
Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;

World English Bible
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

Young's Literal Translation
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:10-20 Moses directs to the duty of a prosperous condition. Let them always remember their Benefactor. In everything we must give thanks. Moses arms them against the temptations of a prosperous condition. When men possess large estates, or are engaged in profitable business, they find the temptation to pride, forgetfulness of God, and carnal-mindedness, very strong; and they are anxious and troubled about many things. In this the believing poor have the advantage; they more easily perceive their supplies coming from the Lord in answer to the prayer of faith; and, strange as it may seem, they find less difficulty in simply trusting him for daily bread. They taste a sweetness therein, which is generally unknown to the rich, while they are also freed from many of their temptations. Forget not God's former dealings with thee. Here is the great secret of Divine Providence. Infinite wisdom and goodness are the source of all the changes and trials believers experience. Israel had many bitter trials, but it was to do them good. Pride is natural to the human heart. Would one suppose that such a people, after their slavery at the brick-kilns, should need the thorns of the wilderness to humble them? But such is man! And they were proved that they might be humbled. None of us live a single week without giving proofs of our weakness, folly, and depravity. To broken-hearted souls alone the Saviour is precious indeed. Nothing can render the most suitable outward and inward trials effectual, but the power of the Spirit of God. See here how God's giving and our getting are reconciled, and apply it to spiritual wealth. All God's gifts are in pursuance of his promises. Moses repeats the warning he had often given of the fatal consequences of forsaking God. Those who follow others in sin, will follow them to destruction. If we do as sinners do, we must expect to fare as sinners fare.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full,.... Not only once and again, but continually, day after day, being indulged with great plenty:

and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; who for forty years had only dwelt in tents, moving from place to place in the wilderness.

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Remember the Lord Your God
…11Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day: 12Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein; 13And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; …

Deuteronomy 8:13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,
Proverbs 30:9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Hosea 13:6 When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.