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.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV “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.
- NASB “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.
- NLT Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.
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Quick answer
God promises fruitfulness in family, crops, and livestock as covenant blessings.
Overview
Fertility in children, fields, and flocks signals God's favor and the fulfillment of his creation mandate. These tangible blessings reflect God as the giver of all life and increase. Israel's prosperity was meant to testify to the nations of the goodness of their God.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
- Gen 49:25by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
- Deut 7:13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- Ps 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Lev 26:9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Deut 28:11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
- Ps 107:38He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Ps 127:3Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
- Gen 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Prov 20:7The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
- 1 Tim 4:8For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
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