KJV King James Version
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Deuteronomy 1:11
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!
ASV American Standard Version
Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye are, a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 1
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
9 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye [are], and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken [is] good [for us] to do.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
יְהוָ֞הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֵ֣יH430 · e.lo.himGodאֲבֽוֹתֵכֶ֗םH1 · avfatherיֹסֵ֧ףH3254 · ya.saphto add: againעֲלֵיכֶ֛םH5921 · aluponכָּכֶ֖םH9036 · khemyouאֶ֣לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandפְּעָמִ֑יםH6471 · pa.ambeatוִיבָרֵ֣ךְH1288 · ba.rakhto blessאֶתְכֶ֔םH853 · et[Obj.]כַּאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichדִּבֶּ֥רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakלָכֶֽם׃H9036 · khemyou
Cross-references
Psalm 115:14The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.Genesis 22:17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;Numbers 6:27And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.Genesis 26:4And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;Genesis 49:25[Even] by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:2 Samuel 24:3And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?Genesis 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.Numbers 22:12And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they [are] blessed.Exodus 32:13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit [it] for ever.1 Chronicles 21:3And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they [be]: but, my lord the king, [are] they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
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