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lest I be full and deny you
    and say, “Who is the Lord?”
or I be poor and steal
    and profane the name of my God.(A)

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When I fed[a] them, they were satisfied;
    they were satisfied, and their heart was proud;
    therefore they forgot me.(A)

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  1. 13.6 Cn: Heb according to their pasture

20 For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten their fill and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant.(A)

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49 This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.(A) 50 They were haughty and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.(B)

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

11 “Take care that you do not forget the Lord your God by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes that I am commanding you today. 12 When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them 13 and when your herds and flocks have multiplied and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,(B)

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24 “If I have made gold my trust
    or called fine gold my confidence,(A)
25 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great
    or because my hand had gotten much,(B)
26 if I have looked at the sun[a] when it shone
    or the moon moving in splendor,(C)
27 and my heart has been secretly enticed,
    and my mouth has kissed my hand,
28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges,
    for I should have been false to God above.(D)

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  1. 31.26 Heb the light

25 And they captured fortress cities and a rich land and took possession of houses filled with all sorts of goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.(A)

26 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.(B)

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15 Jacob ate his fill;[a]
    Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.
    You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him
    and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.(A)

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  1. 32.15 Q mss Sam Gk: MT lacks Jacob ate his fill

Caution against Disobedience

10 “When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—a land with fine, large cities that you did not build,(A) 11 houses filled with all sorts of goods that you did not fill, hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you have eaten your fill,(B) 12 take care that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord![a]
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, “We are free;
    we will come to you no more”?(A)

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  1. 2.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain

“You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.(A)

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22 The people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a mortal!” 23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)

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74 Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath, “I do not know the man!” At that moment the cock crowed.

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