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You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.
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A Covenant of Blessings
Commentators unanimously highlight that the promises of blessed food, water, and health were conditional. God's provision was directly tied to Israel's exclusive worship and obedience. As Matthew Henry notes, these promises show how "godliness has the promise of the life that now is," but they could be forfeited through disobedience.
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Exodus
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19th Century
Anglican
He shall bless thy bread, and thy water—that is, all the food, whether meat or drink, on which they subsisted. It is God’…
16th Century
Protestant
And you shall serve the Lord your God. It is true that this promise is very similar to others to which I have assigned a specific place, b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall serve the Lord your God And him only, who had brought them out of Egypt, and done so many great and go…
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Presbyterian
It is here promised that they would be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise: Behold, I send an angel befo…
