Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
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Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
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And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
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And the LORD will make thee over-abundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 30:9 Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
- Proverbs 10:22 Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- Leviticus 26:9 “ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
- Deuteronomy 28:4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- Psalms 132:11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
- Job 19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The same things which were said before are repeated,…
The same things which were said before are repeated, to show that God would repeat and multiply his blessings upon them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure,....…
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure,.... The Lord has his treasures of snow and of hail, and of wind, Job 38:22; but here his good treasure, as appears by what follows, is his treasure of rain. In the Targum of Jonathan it is said,
"there are four keys in the hand of the Lord of the whole world, which he does not deliver into the hands of any prince; the keys of life, and of the grave, and of food, and of rain:"
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the heaven, to give the rain unto thy land in its season; that is, he will open the heaven, where his good treasure of rain is laid up, and bring it forth or, the land of Canaan for the enriching of it; or will open the windows thereof, and pour down the blessing; see Mal 3:10; and that at the proper time, both in autumn and spring, the one is called the former, and the other the latter rain; the one was in Marchesvan, or October, and the other in Nisan, or March, as the Targum of Jonathan; the former rain for the fitting the earth for seed, or for watering it when sown, and the latter for the plumping of it before harvest:
and to bless all the work of thine hand; in agriculture, for without the blessing of rain, all the labour of the husbandman would be to little purpose:
and thou shall lend unto many nations, and thou shall not borrow; See Gill on Deu 15:16. The connection of these words with what goes before may lead to observe this sense of them, that they should furnish other countries with corn, and not need any of theirs; see Eze 27:17.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The same things which were said before are repeated,…
The same things which were said before are repeated, to shew that God would repeat and multiply his blessings upon them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 28:11-12. Plenteous in goods — The same things…
Deu 28:11-12. Plenteous in goods — The same things which were said before are repeated, to show that God would repeat and multiply his blessings upon them. His good treasure — The heaven or the air, which is God’s store-house, where he treasures up rain or wind for man’s use.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods--Beside the…
the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods--Beside the natural capabilities of Canaan, its extraordinary fruitfulness was traceable to the special blessing of Heaven.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. make thee plenteous for good] Lit. make thee…
11. make thee plenteous for good] Lit. make thee to have an excess, or surplus, of prosperity—through the fruit of thy body, etc.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) In goods.—Rather, in good or goodness, i.e., in…
(11) In goods.—Rather, in good or goodness, i.e., in prosperity. “Goodness” in Jer_33:9.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods; literally,…
The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods; literally, shall make thee to abound for good; i.e. shall not only give thee abundance, but cause it to redound to thy felicity.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)
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in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your cattle, in the fruit of your ground
This is an idiom. See how you translated these words in Deuteronomy 28:4. AT: "with children, animals, and crops" (See: Idiom)
his storehouse of the heavens
Moses speaks of the clouds from which the rain falls as if they were a building where he stores the rain. AT: "the clouds" (See: Metaphor)
at the right time
"when the crops need it"
all the work of your hand
The word "hand" is a synecdoche for the whole person. AT: "all the work that you do" (See: Synecdoche)
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Yahweh
fruit
body
oath
ancestor
heaven
bless
works
hand
nation
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