Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- BSB Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- NKJV Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.
- NASB Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundred times as much. And the Lord blessed him,
- NLT When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him.
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Quick answer
Isaac plants crops and reaps a hundredfold harvest, because Yahweh blessed him.
Overview
In a famine-prone land, Isaac's extraordinary harvest is attributed directly to the Lord's blessing, not merely good farming. This visibly fulfills God's covenant promise to bless him (v. 3). Material abundance here serves as a sign of God's faithfulness to the patriarchal line through which the Redeemer would come.
Cross-references & the web
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- Mark 4:8And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
- Gen 26:3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
- Gen 24:35And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
- Gen 24:1And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Zech 8:12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
- 2 Cor 9:10–11Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
- Gal 6:7–8Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
- Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
- Eccl 11:6In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
- Ps 67:6Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
- 1 Cor 3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
- Gen 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
- Matt 13:8But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
- Ps 72:16There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
- Matt 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
- Gen 26:29That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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