No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
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No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
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There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil.
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Passages linked to Exodus 23:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 7:14 You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
- 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.
- Job 5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 21:10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
- Isaiah 65:20 “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
- Psalms 107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Psalms 144:13 Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- Genesis 35:29 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- 1 Chronicles 23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
- Malachi 3:10-11 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for. I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Genesis 25:8 Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Job 42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Psalms 55:23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor…
Exo 23:26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Ver. 26. The number of thy days.] Thou shalt die, as Abraham did, with a good hoary head; be satur dierum, as Job; fall as a full ripe apple into the hands of God, the gatherer.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Here was a double mercy. God gave them strength…
Here was a double mercy. God gave them strength both to conceive, and to retain the conception till the natural and proper time of bringing forth came.
The number of thy days I will fulfil; I will preserve thee so as thou shalt live as long as the course of nature and temper of thy body will permit, when evil men shall not live out half their days, Psa 55:23.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will send hornets before thee,.... Which may…
And I will send hornets before thee,.... Which may be interpreted either figuratively, and so may signify the same as fear before which should fall on the Canaanites upon hearing the Israelites were coming; the stings of their consciences for their sins, terrors of mind, dreading the wrath of the God of Israel, of whom they had heard, and terrible apprehensions of ruin and destruction from the Israelites: Aben Ezra interprets it of some disease of the body, which weakens it, as the leprosy, from the signification of the word, which has some affinity with that used for the leprosy; and so the Arabic version understands it of a disease: or rather, the words are to be taken literally, for hornets, which are a sort of wasps, whose stings are very penetrating and venomous; nor is it any strange or unheard of thing for people to be drove out of their countries by small animals, as mice, flies, bees, &c. and particularly Aelianus (q) relates, that the Phaselites were drove out of their country by wasps: and Bochart (r) has shown that those people were of a Phoenician original, and inhabited the mountains of Solymi; and that this happened to them about the times of Joshua, and so may probably be the very Canaanites here mentioned, as follow: the wasps, in Aristophanes's comedy which bears that name, are introduced speaking of themselves, and say, no creature when provoked is more angry and troublesome than we are (s):
which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee; which three are mentioned instead of the rest, or because they were more especially infested and distressed with the hornets, and drove out of their land by means of them.
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(q) Hist. Animal. l. 11. c. 28. (r) Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 13. col. 541. (s) Aristoph. Vespae, p. 510.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The number of thy days I will fulfill -…
The number of thy days I will fulfill - And they shall not be cut off in the midst by untimely deaths. Thus hath godliness the promise of the life that now is.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 26. There shall nothing cast their young, nor…
Verse 26. There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren] Hence there must be a very great increase both of men and cattle.
The number of thy days I will fulfil.] Ye shall all live to a good old age, and none die before his time. This is the blessing of the righteous, for wicked men live not out half their days; Ps 55:23.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fruitless. Hebrew may also be, "miscarrying." --- Days. An…
Fruitless. Hebrew may also be, "miscarrying." --- Days. An untimely death was a judgment of God on the wicked, though sometimes he chooses to draw his elect quickly out of this dangerous world, Wisdom iv. 11.
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).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) There shall nothing cast their young, nor be…
(26) There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren.—Abortions, untimely births, and barrenness, when they exceeded a certain average amount, were always reckoned in the ancient world among the signs of God’s disfavour, and special expiatory rites were devised for checking them. Conversely, when such misfortunes fell short of the ordinary average, God’s favour was presumed. The promises here made confirm man’s instinctive feeling.
The number of thy days I will fulfil.—Comp. Exo_20:12. Long life is always regarded in Scripture as a blessing. (Comp. Psa_55:23; Psa_90:10; Job_5:26; Job_42:16-17; 1Ki_3:11; Isa_65:20; Eph_6:3, &c.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There shall nothing out their young, nor be barren…
There shall nothing out their young, nor be barren in thy land. This blessing could not have followed upon godly living in the way of natural sequence, but only by Divine favor and providential care. It would have rendered them rich in flocks and herds beyond any other nation. The number of thy days I will fulfil. There shall be no premature deaths. All, both men and women, shall reach the term allotted to man, and die in a good old age, having fulfilled their time. Godly living, persisted in for several generations, might, perhaps, produce this result.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues telling Moses his laws for the people of Israel.
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No woman will be barren or will miscarry her young in your land
This can be stated in positive form. AT: "Every woman will be able to become pregnant and give birth to healthy babies" (See: Double Negatives)
miscarry
to have a pregnancy end early and unexpectedly
hornets
a flying insect that can sting people and cause pain
or the land would become abandoned
"because no one would be living in the land"
translationWords
barren
fear
people group
Hivite
Canaan
Hittite
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:26 Pagan rites were carried out in an attempt…
23:26 Pagan rites were carried out in an attempt to manipulate the forces of fertility and reproduction. God promised to give these gifts freely if the people would faithfully carry out the terms of their covenant with him.
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