Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 28:4
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the assembly of Israel at Moab, in the covenant stipulations of Deuteronomy 28, where blessings follow obedience and curses follow disobedience.
The words — פְּרִי (peri, "fruit, yield") appears three times, governing womb, ground, and livestock in sequence; the verse is structurally a single predicate (בָּרוּךְ, barukh, "blessed") applied to three domains of material life.
The thread — Deuteronomy 7:13 uses nearly identical phrasing (fruit of womb, produce of land) as a marker of covenant love; Genesis 49:25 layers "blessings of the heavens above" over the same pattern; Proverbs 10:22 adds that the LORD's blessing carries no sorrow with it.
Why it lands — The verse ties the three channels by which an Israelite household survived—children, crops, animals—to covenant faithfulness, making material well-being a measure of relationship rather than an independent guarantee.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Blessed 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.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
- Genesis 49:25 by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
- Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- Psalms 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- Leviticus 26:9 I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
- Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
- 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.
- Psalms 107:38 He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Psalms 127:3 Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.