Deuteronomy 8:13

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 8:13 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply for you, and all that you have multiplies,

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And thy beastes, and thy sheepe are increased, and thy siluer and golde is multiplied, and all that thou hast is increased,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and thy herd and thy flock be multiplied, and silver and gold be multiplied to thee; and all that is thine be multiplied:
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and your herd and your flock are multiplied, and silver and gold are multiplied to you, and all that is yours is multiplied,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Be careful when your herds and flocks multiply and when your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied,
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply for you, and all that you have multiplies,
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are increased, and all that thou hast is increased;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and when your herds and flocks grow larger, and your silver and gold accumulates, and all your possessions increase,
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

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וּבְקָֽרְךָ֤
bâqâr
H1241
“and · cattle · your”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Both
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1239

TWOT: 274a

cattle, herd, oxen, ox - cattle (generic plural but singular in form - collective) - herd (particular one) - head of cattle (individually)
  1. וְצֹֽאנְךָ֙ tsôʼn H6629 “and · flock · your” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן râbâh H7235 “to multiply” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural + Suffix, n
  3. וְכֶ֥סֶף keçeph H3701 “and · silver” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. וְזָהָ֖ב zâhâb H2091 “and · gold” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. יִרְבֶּה râbâh H7235 “to multiply” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וְכֹ֥ל kôl H3605 “and · all” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  8. יִרְבֶּֽה râbâh H7235 “to multiply” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
7
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 2 prepositions
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן Qal · Imperfect
  • יִרְבֶּה Qal · Imperfect
  • יִרְבֶּֽה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן to multiply H7235 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 8:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Job 1:3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Genesis 13:1–5 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
  • Luke 12:13–21 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
  • Psalms 39:6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 8:13 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּבְקָֽרְךָ֤ וְצֹֽאנְךָ֙ יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן וְכֶ֥סֶף וְזָהָ֖ב יִרְבֶּה לָּ֑ךְ וְכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר לְךָ֖ יִרְבֶּֽה

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 8:13 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ βοῦς σύ καί ὁ πρόβατον σύ πληθύνω σύ ἀργύριον καί χρυσίον πληθύνω σύ καί πᾶς ὅσος σύ εἰμί πληθύνω σύ

and your oxen and your sheep are multiplied to you, and your silver and your gold are multiplied to you, and all your possessions are multiplied to you,

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתוֹרָךְ וְעָנָךְ יִסְגוּן וְכַסְפָּא וְדַהֲבָא יִסְגֵא לָךְ וְכֹל דִי לָךְ יִסְגֵא

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְתוֹרֵיכוֹן וְעָנֵיכוֹן יִסְגוּן וְכַסְפָּא וְדַהֲבָא יִסְגֵי לְכוֹן וְכָל דִּילְכוֹן יִסְגֵי

    and your oxen and sheep are multiplied, and silver and gold are increased to you, and all things you have are multiplied,

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 8:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Deu 8:13 And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

Ver. 13. When thy silver and thy gold.] Which what is it else but white and red mould, the guts and garbage of the earth? Wonder it is surely, that treading upon it we should so much esteem it. Well, if silver and gold be our happiness, then it is in the earth, and so, which is strange, nearer hell, which the Scripture placeth in the deep, than heaven, which all know to be aloft; and so nearer the devil than God.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Then thine heart be lifted up,.... As the heart is apt to be when riches increase; hence the advice in Ti1 6:17.

and thou forget the Lord thy God; from whom all good things come, and who can take them away when he pleases, and therefore should be ever kept in mind, for ever looked to and trusted in for the continuance of them; yet such is the evil heart of man, and such the stupefying nature of riches, that they bring on forgetfulness of the author of them, lead off from dependence on him and obedience to him; in order to prevent which, an enumeration is given of wonderful instances of divine goodness to Israel, as follows:

which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; into a land abounding with all the above good things, and therefore it must be the highest ingratitude to forget such a God, and disobey his commands.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Moses continues to speak to the Israelites as if they are one person. (See: Forms of You)

your herds and flocks

"your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats"

multiply

increase greatly in number

all that you have is multiplied

This can be stated in active form. AT: "you have many more things" or "you have many more possessions" (See: Active or Passive)

your heart becomes lifted up

Here "heart" represents the inner person. To become prideful and no longer obey Yahweh is spoken of as if the person's heart is lifted up. See how you translated a similar phrase in Deuteronomy 8:12. AT: "you become prideful and no longer obey Yahweh" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)

who brought you out

Moses begins to remind the Israelites of what they know about Yahweh. (See: Distinguishing versus Informing or Reminding)

out of the house of bondage

This is a metaphor for the time they were slaves in Egypt. AT: "out from the place where you were slaves" (See: Metaphor)

translationWords

flocks

silver

gold

heart

Egypt

house

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâqâr (“cattle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word bâqâr carries the sense “cattle.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Job 1:3, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to multiply” (3× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «יִרְבְּיֻ֔ן» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

  • These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
  • “to multiply” occurs 3× in this single verse.
  • 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.

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