Deuteronomy 28:4
You will be blessed with many children. You will be blessed with good harvests. You will be blessed with livestock—your cattle will have many calves, and your sheep will have many lambs.
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3You will be blessed when you're in the town; you will be blessed when you're in the countryside.
5You will be blessed with plenty of bread.
Cross References
Genesis 22:17you can be sure that I will bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sand of the seashore, and they will conquer their enemies.
Leviticus 26:9I will come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you.
Deuteronomy 28:11The Lord will make you very prosperous. You will have many children, your livestock will produce plenty of young, and your land will grow good harvests—all this in the country the Lord promised your forefathers he would give you.
Psalms 127:3Children certainly are a gift from the Lord, for a family is a blessing.
Proverbs 10:22The Lord's blessing makes you rich, and he doesn't add any sadness to accompany it.
Proverbs 20:7Good people live honestly; how happy are their children if they follow them.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:2-15
Promises. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and… Read the whole commentary →