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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Deuteronomy 1:11

Yahweh, the God of your fathers, be adding unto you the like of you, a thousand times, - and bless you, as he hath spoken unto you!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Government;   Israel;   Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fathers';   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Courts of Justice;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Promises of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Father;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God of the Fathers;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Judge;   Promise;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
King James Version
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, may he add to you as you are now a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he promised you.
English Standard Version
May the Lord , the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!
New Century Version
I pray that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, will give you a thousand times more people and do all the wonderful things he promised.
New English Translation
Indeed, may the Lord , the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!
Amplified Bible
'May the LORD, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!
New American Standard Bible
'May the LORD, the God of your fathers increase you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you, just as He has promised you!
Geneva Bible (1587)
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you, as he hath promised you)
Legacy Standard Bible
May Yahweh, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!
Contemporary English Version
God has even promised to bless us a thousand times more, and I pray that he will.
Complete Jewish Bible
May Adonai , the God of your ancestors, increase you yet a thousandfold and bless you, as he has promised you!
Darby Translation
Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath said unto you!
Easy-to-Read Version
May the Lord , the God of your ancestors, give you 1000 times more people than you are now! May he bless you as he promised.
George Lamsa Translation
(May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times as many more as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)
Good News Translation
May the Lord , the God of your ancestors, make you increase a thousand times more and make you prosperous, as he promised!
Christian Standard Bible®
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.
Literal Translation
May Jehovah the God of your fathers add to you a thousand times more than you are , and bless you as He has spoken to you!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(The LORDE God of yor fathers make you yet many thousande tymes mo, & blesse you, as he hath promysed you.)
American Standard Version
Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
Bible in Basic English
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many mo as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promised you.)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you!--
King James Version (1611)
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many moe as ye are, and blesse you as he hath promised you.)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand-fold more than you are, and bless you as he has spoken to you.
English Revised Version
The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
Berean Standard Bible
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the Lord God of youre fadris adde to this noumbre many thousyndis, and blesse you, as he spak.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye [are], a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, may he make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
Webster's Bible Translation
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
World English Bible
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
New King James Version
May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you!
New Living Translation
And may the Lord , the God of your ancestors, multiply you a thousand times more and bless you as he promised!
New Life Bible
May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you 1,000 times as many as you are. May He bring good to you just as He has promised you!
New Revised Standard
May the Lord , the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)
Revised Standard Version
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!

Contextual Overview

9 So spake unto you, at that time saying, I am unable, by myself, to carry you. 10 Yahweh your God hath multiplied you, and here ye are to-day, like the stars of the heavens for multitude. 11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, be adding unto you the like of you, a thousand times, - and bless you, as he hath spoken unto you! 12 How should I carry by myself the fatigue of you and the burden of you and your controversies? 13 Set forth for you - men wise and discerning, and known to your tribes, - that I may appoint them to be heads over you. 14 And ye answered me, - and said, Good, is the word which thou hast spoken to be done. 15 So I took heads for your tribes wise men and known, and placed them as heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers for your tribes. 16 And I charged your judges, at that time, saying, - Ye are to hear between your brethren and shall judge righteously, between each magi and his brother and his sojourner. 17 Ye shall not take note of faces in judgment - so the small as the great, shall ye hear, ye shall not shrink from the face of any man, for judgment, unto God, belongeth, - but the thing which is too hard for you, shall ye bring near unto me, and I will hear it. 18 So I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make you: 2 Samuel 24:3, 1 Chronicles 21:3, Psalms 115:14

and bless you: Genesis 15:5, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 49:25, Exodus 32:13, Numbers 6:27, Numbers 22:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:15 - The Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
And God said - Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry - ground appear. And it was so.
Genesis 1:13
So it was evening - and it was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said - Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night, - and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great luminaries, - the greater luminary to rule the day, and the lesser luminary to rule the night, also the stars.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, - to give light on the earth;
Genesis 1:20
And God said - Let the waters swarm with an abundance of living soul, and, birds, shall fly over the earth, over the face of the expanse of the heavens.
Genesis 1:29
And God said - Lo! I have given to you - every herb yielding seed which is on the face of all the land, and every tree wherein is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, - to you, shall it be, for food;
Genesis 2:5
Now, no bush of the field, as yet - was in the earth, and, no herb of the field, as yet had sprung up, - because Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, and, man, was there none to till the ground;
Genesis 2:9
And Yahweh God, caused to spring up, out of the ground, every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, - and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16
And Yahweh God laid command on the man, saying, - Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest eat;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are,.... This prayer he made, or this blessing he pronounced on them, to show that he did not envy their increase, nor was any ways uneasy at it, but rejoiced in it, though he gave it as a reason of his not being able to govern them alone:

and bless you, as he hath promised you: with all kind of blessings, as he had often promised their fathers.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This appointment of the “captains” (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only.

A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the people took place before they left Horeb to march direct to the promised land. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years’ delay rested only with themselves!


 
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