KJV King James Version
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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Deuteronomy 7:14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
WEB World English Bible
You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman—nor among your cattle;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 7
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations [are] more than I; how can I dispossess them?
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Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.Exodus 23:26-33There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.Deuteronomy 28:11And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.Psalm 127:3Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.Leviticus 26:9For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.Deuteronomy 33:29Happy [art] thou, O Israel: who [is] like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who [is] the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.Psalm 147:19-20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.Psalm 115:15Ye [are] blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
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