No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Parallel translations
- WEB No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.
- KJV There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- BSB No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; 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.
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- Deut 7:14You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
- Deut 28:4You 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.
- Job 5:26You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
- Isa 65:20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
- Ps 107:38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Ps 144:13Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- Gen 35:29Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- Mal 3:10–11Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- 1 Chr 23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
- Job 42:17So Job died, being old and full of days.
- Gen 25:8Abraham gave up his spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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