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New Revised Standard

Deuteronomy 11:9

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.

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.
English Standard Version
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.
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.
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 Keep, then, this entire commandment that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength to go in and occupy the land that you are crossing over to occupy, 9 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. 10 For the land that you are about to enter to occupy is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sow your seed and irrigate by foot like a vegetable garden. 11 But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys, watered by rain from the sky, 12 a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. 13 If you will only heed his every commandment that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God, and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul— 14 then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil; 15 and he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you will eat your fill. 16 Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them, 17 for 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; then 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. These are the descendants of Japheth in their lands, with their own language, by their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:10
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:20
These are the descendants of Ham, by their families, 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 thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out 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 two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Acts 17:26
From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live,
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 mind?

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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