You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
Parallel translations
- KJV Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
- BSB You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- NKJV “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
- NASB “Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.
- NLT Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 121:8Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
- Num 27:17who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”
- 2 Chr 1:10Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
- 2 Sam 3:25You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”
- Deut 31:2He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
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