English Standard Version
Exodus 23:26
26None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Exodus 23:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- New International Version (NIV)and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
- New King James Version (NKJV)No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
- New Living Translation (NLT)There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I will give you long, full lives.
Context of Exodus 23:26
24you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces. 25You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days. 27I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Read all of Exodus 23Exodus 23:26 word by word
לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֛ה מְשַׁכֵּלָ֥ה וַעֲקָרָ֖ה בְּאַרְצֶ֑ךָ אֶת־מִסְפַּ֥ר יָמֶ֖יךָ אֲמַלֵּֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 23:26
- Deuteronomy 7:14You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
- Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
- Job 21:10Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
- Psalms 107:38By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish.
- Psalms 144:13may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
- Malachi 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
- Genesis 25:8Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 35:29And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- 1 Chronicles 23:1When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
- Job 5:26You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
- Job 42:17And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
- Psalms 55:23But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
- Psalms 90:10The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
- Isaiah 65:20No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Commentaries on Exodus 23:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren - Hence there must be a very great increase both of men and cattle. The number of thy days I will fulfill - Ye shall all live to a good old age, and none die before his time. This is the blessing of the righteous, for wicked men live not out half their days; Psalm 55:23.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-33Verses 20-33 It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise, Behold, I send an angel before thee, mine angel. The precept joined with this promise is, that they be obedient to this angel whom God would send before them. Christ is the Angel of Jehovah; this is plainly taught by St. Paul, 1Co 10:9. They should have a comfortable settlement in the land of Canaan. How reasonable are the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26Pagan rites were carried out in an attempt to manipulate the forces of fertility and reproduction. God promised to give these gifts freely if the people would faithfully carry out the terms of their covenant with him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-331. put not thine hand--join not hands.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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