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Deuteronomy 11:21
21so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
- New Living Translation (NLT)so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.
Context of Deuteronomy 11:21
19Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. 22If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him and to hold fast to him— 23then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you.
Read all of Deuteronomy 11Deuteronomy 11:21 word by word
לְמַ֨עַן יִרְבּ֤וּ יְמֵיכֶם֙ וִימֵ֣י בְנֵיכֶ֔ם עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר נִשְׁבַּ֧ע יְהוָ֛ה לַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם לָתֵ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם כִּימֵ֥י הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- That your daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- may be multipliedרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
- of your childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- in the landאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- which the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- swareשָׁבַעshâba‛ · to swearH7650
- unto your fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
- to giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
- of heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
- upon the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 11:21
- Deuteronomy 4:40Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.
- Deuteronomy 5:16“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 6:2so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
- Proverbs 3:2for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
- Proverbs 4:10Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
- Proverbs 9:11For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.
- Psalms 72:5May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations.
- Psalms 89:28I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.
- Isaiah 65:20“Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11:21
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21The sense is: “Keep the covenant faithfully, and so shall your own and your children‘s days be multiplied as long as the heaven covers the earth.” The promise of Canaan to Israel was thus a perpetual promise, but also a conditional one.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections, and good principles in the heart. 2. Let our eyes be fixed upon the word of God, having constant regard to it as the guide of our way, as the rule of our work, Psa 119:30. 3. Let our tongues be employed about the word of God. Nor will any thing do…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-32Here, Moses adds to the covenant stipulations (the commands in chapters 5–11) a list of blessings and curses. These blessings and curses are similar to the longer list that appears at the end of the covenant text in 27–28. They show the results of obeying or disobeying the covenant.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-2518-25. lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them--(See on De 6:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 11
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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