KJV King James Version
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.
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Deuteronomy 11:21
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
WEB World English Bible
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
ASV American Standard Version
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 11
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21 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.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
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לְמַ֨עַןH4616 · ma.anbecauseיִרְבּ֤וּH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyיְמֵיכֶם֙H3117 · yomdayוִימֵ֣יH3117 · yomdayבְנֵיכֶ֔םH1121 · benson: childעַ֚לH5921 · aluponהָֽאֲדָמָ֔הH127 · a.da.mahland: soilאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichנִשְׁבַּ֧עH7650 · sha.vato swearיְהוָ֛הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDלַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖םH1 · avfatherלָתֵ֣תH5414 · na.tanto give: giveלָהֶ֑םH9038 · hemthemכִּימֵ֥יH3117 · yomdayהַשָּׁמַ֖יִםH8064 · sha.ma.yimheavenעַל־H5921 · aluponהָאָֽרֶץ׃ סH776 · e.retsland: country/planet
Cross-references
Proverbs 4:10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.Proverbs 3:2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.Proverbs 9:11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.Deuteronomy 4:40Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.Psalm 72:5They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.Psalm 89:28-29My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.Isaiah 65:20There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed.Deuteronomy 5:16Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.Proverbs 3:16Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honour.Deuteronomy 6:2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
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