There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Parallel translations
- WEB No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
- BSB No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- NKJV No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- NASB There will be no one miscarrying or unable to have children in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- NLT There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I will give you long, full lives.
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Quick answer
God promised protection from miscarriage, barrenness, and premature death for an obedient Israel. He is the giver of life and the keeper of His people's days.
Overview
Fruitfulness and long life were signs of covenant blessing, reversing the curses of barrenness common in the ancient world. This promise assured Israel that the God who controls life would prosper His faithful people. Such blessings were tied to the covenant and should not be read as guarantees for every individual today. Yet they testify that life and its length rest in God's hands, a truth ultimately answered in Christ, who gives eternal life.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 7:14Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
- Deut 28:4Blessed 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.
- Job 5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- Job 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- Isa 65:20There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
- Ps 107:38He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
- Ps 144:13That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
- Gen 35:29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
- 1 Chr 23:1So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
- Job 42:17So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Gen 25:8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
- Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Ps 90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
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