and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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- WEB and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV 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.’
- NASB 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.
- NLT 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!
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Quick answer
Obedience would prolong their days in the promised land flowing with milk and honey. God ties long life in the land to covenant faithfulness.
Overview
Moses links obedience with enduring blessing in the fruitful land God swore to give. The promise of a land of milk and honey pictures God's abundant provision. This earthly inheritance foreshadows the eternal inheritance secured for believers in Christ, where blessing never ends.
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Cross-references · 12
- Exod 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Deut 4:40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
- Deut 6:2so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
- Ezek 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
- Deut 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deut 5:16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Prov 3:2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
- Prov 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
- Prov 3:16Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- Prov 9:11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
- Ps 34:12–22Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
- Deut 6:18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
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