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English Standard Version

Deuteronomy 11:9

and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Chastisement;   Obedience;   Thompson Chain Reference - Canaan, Land of;   Fruitful Land;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Land (of Israel);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Honey;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Resurrection;   Samael;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Hebrew Names Version
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
King James Version
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Lexham English Bible
so that you may live long on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
New Century Version
Then you will live a long time in the land that the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a fertile land.
New English Translation
and that you may enjoy long life in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Amplified Bible
so that you may live long on the land which the LORD swore (solemnly promised) to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land [of great abundance,] flowing with milk and honey.
New American Standard Bible
and so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also that ye may prolong your daies in the land, which the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, to giue vnto them and to their seede, euen a lande that floweth with milke and honie.
Legacy Standard Bible
so that you may prolong your days on the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Contemporary English Version
that the Lord promised your ancestors and their descendants. It's rich with milk and honey, and you will live there and enjoy it for a long time.
Complete Jewish Bible
and so that you will live long in the land Adonai swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Darby Translation
and that ye may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give unto them and unto their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will live a long life in that country. The Lord promised to give that land to your ancestors and all their descendants. It is a land filled with many good things.
George Lamsa Translation
And that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land that flows with milk and honey.
Good News Translation
And you will live a long time in the rich and fertile land that the Lord promised to give your ancestors and their descendants.
Literal Translation
and so that you may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& that ye maye lyue longe in the londe, which the LORDE sware vnto youre fathers, to geue vnto them and to their sede, eue a londe that floweth with mylke and hony:
American Standard Version
and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Bible in Basic English
And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that ye may prolong your dayes in the lande whiche the Lorde sware vnto your fathers, to geue vnto them and to their seede, a lande that floweth with mylke and honie.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
King James Version (1611)
And that yee may prolong your dayes in the lande which the Lord sware vnto your fathers to giue vnto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milke and hony.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that ye may live long upon the land, which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.
English Revised Version
and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Berean Standard Bible
and so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
to which ye schulen entre, and ye lyue therynne in myche time; which lond, flowynge with mylk and hony, the Lord bihiyte vndur an ooth to youre fadris and to `the seed of hem.
Young's Literal Translation
and so that ye prolong days on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them and to their seed -- a land flowing with milk and honey.
Update Bible Version
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Webster's Bible Translation
And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
World English Bible
and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
New King James Version
and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, 'a land flowing with milk and honey.' Exodus 3:8">[fn]
New Living Translation
If you obey, you will enjoy a long life in the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors and to you, their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey!
New Life Bible
You will live long in the land the Lord promised to your fathers and their children, a land flowing with milk and honey.
New Revised Standard
and so that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and that ye may prolong your days upon the soil which Yahweh sware unto your fathers, to give unto them and unto their seed, - a land flowing with milk and honey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And may live in it a long time: which the Lord promised by oath to your fathers, and to their seed, a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Revised Standard Version
and that you may live long in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Contextual Overview

8 "You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess, 9 and that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. 11 But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12 a land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 13 "And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. 16 Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 17 then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

prolong: Deuteronomy 4:40, Deuteronomy 5:16, Deuteronomy 6:2, Psalms 34:12-22, Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 3:16, Proverbs 9:11, Proverbs 10:27

sware: Deuteronomy 6:18, Deuteronomy 9:5

a land: Exodus 3:8, Ezekiel 20:6

Reciprocal: Numbers 13:27 - General Deuteronomy 25:15 - that thy days Deuteronomy 30:20 - thou mayest

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
Genesis 11:1
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
Genesis 11:14
When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.
Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11:32
The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
Acts 17:26
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
1 Corinthians 14:23
If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that ye may prolong your days in the land,.... Not only enter it, and take possession of it, but continue in it long, which depended upon their obedience to the laws of God:

which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed; had promised with an oath, so that they might be assured of the enjoyment of it, though they could not be of their continuance in it, unless they obeyed the divine commands:

a land that floweth with milk and honey; abounds with all good things, whose fruits are fat as milk, and sweet as honey; so the Targum of Jonathan.


 
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