Bible Strands
Exodus 23:26
No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel within the covenant stipulations of Exodus 20–23, offering this promise as a consequence of serving Him (v. 25). It sits between the removal of sickness and the scattering of enemies.
The words — מְשַׁכֵּלָה (meshakkelah), a feminine Piel participle from שׁכל, carries the specific sense of "miscarrying"; its form marks the woman as the one undergoing the loss, not a passive state.
The thread — Deuteronomy 7:14 repeats the no-barrenness clause almost verbatim, and Deuteronomy 28:4 extends the blessing to womb, land, and livestock alike. Job 5:26 picks up the "fullness of days" motif from the second half of this verse.
Why it lands — The promise is bodily and measurable: no lost pregnancies, no empty wombs, a complete lifespan. It forces the reader to take covenant language literally before abstracting it into spiritual categories.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 7:14 You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.
- 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.
- Job 5:26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- Job 21:10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
- Isaiah 65:20 No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Psalms 107:38 He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.
- Psalms 144:13 Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
- Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- 1 Chronicles 23:1 When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
- Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.