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Deuteronomy 11:21

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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the plains of Moab, concluding the covenant blessings that follow the command to inscribe God’s laws on their doorposts and gates.

The words — יִרְבּ֤וּ (yir.Bu) translates as they may increase, and לְמַ֨עַן (le.Ma.'an) functions as so that, structuring the promise as the direct outcome of covenant compliance.

The thread — The linkage between faithful obedience and multiplied days recurs in Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 4:10, and Proverbs 9:11, where wisdom and commandment-keeping are consistently tied to extended life.

Why it lands — The text demands strict adherence to the covenant stipulations to secure generational continuity and territorial stability in the land God pledged to their ancestors.

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The Hebrew words

לְמַ֨עַןle.Ma.'anso thatיִרְבּ֤וּyir.Buthey may increaseיְמֵיכֶם֙ye.mei./Khemdays/ yourוִימֵ֣יvi./Meiand/ [the] days ofבְנֵיכֶ֔םve.nei./Khemchildren/ yourעַ֚ל'alonהָֽאֲדָמָ֔הha./'a.da.Mahthe/ landאֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.Sherwhichנִשְׁבַּ֧עnish.Ba'he sworeיְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehלַאֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖םla./'a.vo.tei./Khemto/ ancestors/ yourלָתֵ֣תla./Tetto/ giveלָהֶ֑םla./Hemto <the>/ themכִּימֵ֥יki./Meilike/ [the] days ofהַשָּׁמַ֖יִםha./sha.Ma.yimthe/ heavensעַל־'al-aboveהָאָֽרֶץ׃ סha./'A.retzthe/ earth

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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