Deuteronomy 6:3
1 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
2 so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.
5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- KJV
- Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
- WEB
- Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- ASV
- Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- DARBY
- And thou shalt hear, Israel, and take heed to do [them]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as Jehovah the God of thy fathers hath said unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- BLB
- Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to do [it], that it may be well with you and that you⁺ may multiply greatly, as YHWH, God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- ÅB
- Så hør, Israel, og akt vel på å holde dem, så det må gå deg vel, og dere må økes og bli tallrike, slik som Herren, dine fedres Gud, har tilsagt deg - i et land som flyter med melk og honning.
- OTB
- Hør, Israel, og vær flittig til å adlyde så det kan gå dere vel og at dere kan øke stort i et land som flyter med melk og honning, slik som Herren, deres fedres Gud, lovet dere.
- B1930
- Så hør, Israel, og akt vel på å holde dem, så det må gå dig vel, og I må økes og bli tallrike, således som Herren, dine fedres Gud, har tilsagt dig - i et land som flyter med melk og honning.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Read in contextExodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Read in contextGenesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Read in contextGenesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Read in contextGenesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
Read in contextIsaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Read in contextActs 7:17
As the time drew near for God to fulfill His promise to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased greatly in number.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:12
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
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