You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
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You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
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Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 7:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 23:26-33 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 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.
- Psalms 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
- Leviticus 26:9 “ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
- Psalms 147:19-20 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
- Psalms 115:15 Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people:…
Deu 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
Ver. 14. Thou shalt be blessed.] There is a μυριομακαριοτης in godliness. {1Ti 6:6} {See Trapp on "1Ti 6:6"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt be blessed above all people,.... Even with…
Thou shalt be blessed above all people,.... Even with temporal blessings, besides those of a religious kind; they having the oracles of God, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, Rom 3:1,
there shall not be male or female barren among you; which to be was reckoned a reproach, and the contrary a blessing, Luk 1:25 Psa 128:3.
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or among your cattle; the Targum of Jonathan is, nor thy beasts barren of wool, and milk, and lambs.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Cattle. This shews, that no precept to marry is…
Cattle. This shews, that no precept to marry is here given, but only a blessing. Even men cannot be commanded not to be barren, as that is not in their own power. It was, however, deemed a mark of some secret transgression when married people had no children. (Vasques.) (Tirinus)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. not … barren] Exo_23:26 (edit.); cp. above on…
14. not … barren] Exo_23:26 (edit.); cp. above on Deu_7:13.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) All people.—Literally, all the peoples: i.e., all other…
(14) All people.—Literally, all the peoples: i.e., all other states and communities.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues to tell the people of Israel Yahweh's words as if the Israelites are one person. (See: Forms of You)
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You will be blessed more than all other peoples
This can be stated in active form. AT: "I will bless you more than I bless any other people" (See: Active or Passive)
there will not be a childless male or a barren female among you or among your cattle
Moses uses a negative statement to emphasize that they all will be able to have children. This may be stated in a positive form. AT: "All of you will be able to have children and your cattle will be able to reproduce" (See: Litotes)
among you ... your cattle
The words "you" and "your" are plural here. (See: Forms of You)
take away from you all sickness
"make sure that you do not become ill" or "keep you completely healthy"
none of the evil diseases ... will he put on you, but he will put them on all those who hate you
Moses speaks as if disease were a heavy object that Yahweh would put on top of people. AT: "he will not make you sick with any of the evil diseases ... but he will make your enemies sick with them" (See: Metaphor)
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