TO FORGET — the verb Deuteronomy 8 is built around, checked across the whole archived Hebrew of Deuteronomy: thirteen occurrences, four of them landing in Deuteronomy 8:11-19 alone (already on these pages), matching the rest of the book combined up to that point (4:9, 4:23, 4:31, 6:12, each once). The chapter's own structure makes forgetting the danger of PROSPERITY specifically, not of hardship: houses built, herds multiplied, silver and gold increased — only then does the heart grow high and forget. Its most emphatic form is the infinitive absolute at Deuteronomy 8:19, 'if FORGETTING you forget' — Hebrew's own way of underlining a verb by repeating it. → first discussed at Deut 8:11