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Deuteronomy 28:4

"The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Obedience;   Righteous;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Calling;   Israel/jews;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Obedience to God;   Ox, the;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gerizim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Nature;   Wealth;   Weather;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Blessing;   Command, Commandment;   Fruit;   Land (of Israel);   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Faithfulness of God;   Jews;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ashtaroth;   Blessing and Cursing;   Cattle;   Covenant;   Fertility Cult;   Fruit;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Land, Ground;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Ox, Oxen, Herd, Cattle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Agriculture;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Kine;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount gerizim;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Kine;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Body;   Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Kine;   Salvation;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Astarte Worship among the Hebrews;   Cattle;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Your offspring will be blessed,and your land’s produce,and the offspring of your livestock,including the young of your herdsand the newborn of your flocks.
Hebrew Names Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
King James Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Lexham English Bible
"Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the calf of your cattle and the lambs of your flock.
English Standard Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
New Century Version
Your children will be blessed, as well as your crops; your herds will be blessed with calves and your flocks with lambs.
New English Translation
Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Amplified Bible
"The offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed.
New American Standard Bible
"Blessed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your animals: the newborn of your herd and the young of your flock.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed shalbe the fruite of thy body, and ye fruite of thy ground, & the fruite of thy cattel, the increase of thy kine, & ye flocks of thy sheepe.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
Contemporary English Version
You will have many children. You will harvest large crops, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats will produce many young.
Complete Jewish Bible
"A blessing on the fruit of your body, the fruit of your land and the fruit of your livestock — the young of your cattle and flocks.
Darby Translation
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will bless you and give you many children. He will bless your land and give you good crops. He will bless your animals and let them have many babies. He will bless you with calves and lambs.
George Lamsa Translation
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, the bearing of your cattle, the increase of your herds, and the flocks of your sheep.
Literal Translation
The fruit of your body shall be blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your flock.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed shalbe the frute of thy body, the frute of thy grounde, and the frute of thy catell, and the frute of thine oxen, and the frute of thy shepe.
American Standard Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
Bible in Basic English
A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed shalbe the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy grounde, and the fruite of thy cattell, the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
King James Version (1611)
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattell, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheepe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Blessed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the fruits of thy land, and the herds of thy oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.
English Revised Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock.
Berean Standard Bible
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock-the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
blessid schal be the fruyt of thi wombe, and the fruyt of thi lond, and the fruit of thi beestis; `blessid schulen be the flockis of thi grete beestis, and the fooldis of thi scheep;
Young's Literal Translation
`Blessed [is] the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.
Update Bible Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, and the flocks of thy sheep.
World English Bible
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your animals, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
New King James Version
"Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
New Living Translation
Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.
New Life Bible
Good will come to your children, and the fruit of your ground, and the young of your animals. Your cattle and flock will have many young ones.
New Revised Standard
Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, - the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.
Revised Standard Version
Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.

Contextual Overview

1 "If you obey the Lord your God and faithfully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, he will make you greater than any other nation on earth. 2 Obey the Lord your God and all these blessings will be yours: 3 "The Lord will bless your towns and your fields. 4 "The Lord will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep. 5 "The Lord will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them. 6 "The Lord will bless everything you do. 7 "The Lord will defeat your enemies when they attack you. They will attack from one direction, but they will run from you in all directions. 8 "The Lord your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you. 9 "If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that the Lord has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 7:13, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 49:25, Leviticus 26:9, Psalms 107:38, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 128:3, Proverbs 10:22, Proverbs 13:22, Proverbs 20:7, 1 Timothy 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:38 - ewes Exodus 23:26 - shall nothing Deuteronomy 7:14 - male or Deuteronomy 28:18 - the fruit of thy body Deuteronomy 30:9 - make thee Job 5:25 - thy seed Psalms 128:2 - thou shalt eat Psalms 144:13 - our sheep Zechariah 8:12 - the seed

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
Genesis 28:1
Isaac called Jacob, greeted him, and told him, "Don't marry a Canaanite.
Genesis 28:3
May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!
Genesis 28:5
Isaac sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia, to Laban, who was the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebecca, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:6
Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Mesopotamia to find a wife. He also learned that when Isaac blessed him, he commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 28:7
He found out that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Mesopotamia.
Genesis 28:8
Esau then understood that his father Isaac did not approve of Canaanite women.
Genesis 28:9
So he went to Ishmael son of Abraham and married his daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 28:12
He dreamed that he saw a stairway reaching from earth to heaven, with angels going up and coming down on it.
Genesis 28:13
And there was the Lord standing beside him. "I am the Lord , the God of Abraham and Isaac," he said. "I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body,.... Their children, of which they should have many, and these live; be healthful, thrive, and arrive to manhood, and increase and perpetuate their families. Grotius thinks this was eminently fulfilled in Mary, the mother of our Lord; see Luke 1:42;

and the fruit of thy ground; of their gardens, orchards, and fields; grass for the cattle, and the wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates for the use of men:

and the fruit of thy cattle; which being distinguished from oxen and sheep in the following clause, must be understood of camels and asses, which were used for the carriage both of persons and burdens, and were very serviceable, and were a considerable part of their substance in those countries; see Job 1:3;

the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep; of their cows and oxen, and of their sheep and goats, which were very increasing creatures, and in the increase of which much of their outward happiness lay; see Psalms 144:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language rises in this chapter to the sublimest strains, especially in the latter part of it; and the prophecies respecting the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation in its later days are among the most remarkable in scripture. They are plain, precise, and circumstantial; and the fulfillment of them has been literal, complete, and undeniable.

The Blessing. The six repetitions of the word “blessed” introduce the particular forms which the blessing would take in the various relations of life.

Deuteronomy 28:5

The “basket” or bag was a customary means in the East for carrying about whatever might be needed for personal uses (compare Deuteronomy 26:2; John 13:29).

The “store” is rather the kneading-trough Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. The blessings here promised relate, it will be observed, to private and personal life: in Deuteronomy 28:7 those which are of a more public and national character are brought forward.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The oath with which God vouchsafed to confirm His promises to the patriarchs (compare Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13-14) contained by implication these gifts of holiness and eminence to Israel (compare the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 28:4. Fruit of thy body — All thy children. Increase of thy kine, c. every animal employed in domestic and agricultural purposes shall be under the especial protection of Divine Providence.


 
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