When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for 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.
- KJV Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- BSB Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- ESV And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. 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,
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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.
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Cross-references · 16
- Mark 4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
- Gen 26:3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
- Gen 24:35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Gen 24:1Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Zech 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
- 2 Cor 9:10–11Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
- Gal 6:7–8Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
- Job 42:12So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- Eccl 11:6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
- Ps 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
- 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
- Gen 30:30For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”
- Matt 13:8Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
- Ps 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
- Matt 13:23What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
- Gen 26:29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
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