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Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.
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God's Abundant Blessing
Commentators explain that this verse promises a comprehensive and overflowing prosperity from God. This abundance isn't limited to one area but covers family ('fruit of thy body'), livelihood ('fruit of thy cattle'), and resources ('fruit of thy ground'). As one scholar notes, it's an 'affluence of all temporal good things,' showing God's desire to bless every aspect of His people's lives.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A comparison of this chapter with (Exodus 23:20–23) and (Leviticus 26:0) will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the…
19th Century
Anglican
In goods. —Rather, in good or goodness, i.e., in prosperity. “Goodness” in Jeremiah 33:9.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord shall make you plenteous in goods. In all temporal good things, give them an affluence of them, even all thi…
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This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects.
The blessings …
