Deuteronomy 7:14

JPS Old Testament

Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

King James Version
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Lexham English Bible
You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, even among domestic animals.

English Standard Version
You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

New Century Version
You will be blessed more than any other people. Every husband and wife will have children, and all your cattle will have calves.

New English Translation
You will be blessed beyond all peoples; there will be no barrenness among you or your livestock.

Amplified Bible
"You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren (childless, infertile) among you or among your cattle.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no sterile male or infertile female among you or among your cattle.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

Contemporary English Version
God will bless you more than any other nation—your families will grow and your livestock increase.

Complete Jewish Bible
You will be blessed more than all other peoples; there will not be a sterile male or female among you, and the same with your livestock.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt be blessed above all the peoples; there shall not be male or female barren with thee, or with thy cattle;

Easy-to-Read Version
"You will be blessed more than all people. Every husband and wife will be able to have children. Your cows will be able to have calves.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

Good News Translation
No people in the world will be as richly blessed as you. None of you nor any of your livestock will be sterile.

Christian Standard Bible®
You will be blessed above all peoples; there will be no infertile male or female among you or your livestock.

Literal Translation
You shall be blessed above all people; there shall not be a barren man or a barren woman among you, nor among your livestock.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed shalt thou be aboue all nacions, there shal no vnfrutefull personne be in the, ner amonge thy catell.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Bible in Basic English
You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt be blessed aboue all nations: there shalbe neither man nor woman vnfruitfull among you, nor any of your cattell shalbe barren.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt bee blessed aboue all people: there shall not bee male or female barren among you or among your cattell.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt be blessed beyond all nations; there shall not be among you an impotent or barren one, or among thy cattle.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Berean Standard Bible
You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt be blessid among alle puplis; noon bareyn of euer eithir kynde schal be at thee, as well in men, as in thi flockis.

Young's Literal Translation
`Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman -- nor among your cattle;

Update Bible Version
You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

World English Bible
You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

New King James Version
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

New Living Translation
You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth. None of your men or women will be childless, and all your livestock will bear young.

New Life Bible
More good will come to you than to any other nation. There will be no male or female among you or your cattle that is not able to have young ones.

New Revised Standard
You shall be the most blessed of peoples, with neither sterility nor barrenness among you or your livestock.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blessed shalt thou be beyond all the peoples, - there shall not be in thee a barren male or female, nor among thy cattle;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.

Revised Standard Version
You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

THE MESSAGE
When God , your God, brings you into the country that you are about to enter and take over, he will clear out the superpowers that were there before you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than you are. God , your God, will turn them over to you and you will conquer them. You must completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction to God . Don't make a treaty with them. Don't let them off in any way. Don't marry them: Don't give your daughters to their sons and don't take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they'd involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you. Here's what you are to do: Tear apart their altars stone by stone, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their sex-and-religion Asherah groves, set fire to their carved god-images. Do this because you are a people set apart as holy to God , your God. God , your God, chose you out of all the people on Earth for himself as a cherished, personal treasure. God wasn't attracted to you and didn't choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. God stepped in and mightily bought you back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know this: God , your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. But he also pays back those who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn't slow to pay them off—those who hate him, he pays right on time. So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them. And this is what will happen: When you, on your part, will obey these directives, keeping and following them, God , on his part, will keep the covenant of loyal love that he made with your ancestors: He will love you, he will bless you, he will increase you. He will bless the babies from your womb and the harvest of grain, new wine, and oil from your fields; he'll bless the calves from your herds and lambs from your flocks in the country he promised your ancestors that he'd give you. You'll be blessed beyond all other peoples: no sterility or barrenness in you or your animals. God will get rid of all sickness. And all the evil afflictions you experienced in Egypt he'll put not on you but on those who hate you. You'll make mincemeat of all the peoples that God , your God, hands over to you. Don't feel sorry for them. And don't worship their gods—they'll trap you for sure. You're going to think to yourselves, "Oh! We're outnumbered ten to one by these nations! We'll never even make a dent in them!" But I'm telling you, Don't be afraid. Remember, yes, remember in detail what God , your God, did to Pharaoh and all Egypt. Remember the great contests to which you were eyewitnesses: the miracle-signs, the wonders, God 's mighty hand as he stretched out his arm and took you out of there. God , your God, is going to do the same thing to these people you're now so afraid of. And to top it off, the Hornet. God will unleash the Hornet on them until every survivor-in-hiding is dead. So don't be intimidated by them. God , your God, is among you— God majestic, God awesome. God , your God, will get rid of these nations, bit by bit. You won't be permitted to wipe them out all at once lest the wild animals take over and overwhelm you. But God , your God, will move them out of your way—he'll throw them into a huge panic until there's nothing left of them. He'll turn their kings over to you and you'll remove all trace of them under Heaven. Not one person will be able to stand up to you; you'll put an end to them all. Make sure you set fire to their carved gods. Don't get greedy for the veneer of silver and gold on them and take it for yourselves—you'll get trapped by it for sure. God hates it; it's an abomination to God , your God. And don't dare bring one of these abominations home or you'll end up just like it, burned up as a holy destruction. No: It is forbidden! Hate it. Abominate it. Destroy it and preserve God 's holiness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

Contextual Overview

¹² And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers, ¹³ and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. ¹⁵ And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. ¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. ¹⁷ If thou shalt say in thy heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' ¹⁸ thou shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt: ¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. ²⁰ Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee. ²¹ Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blessed: Deuteronomy 33:29, Psalms 115:15, Psalms 147:19, Psalms 147:20

male or: Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Exodus 23:26-33, Leviticus 26:9, Psalms 127:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:2 - withheld Job 21:10 - their cow Psalms 107:38 - suffereth Psalms 144:13 - our sheep Song of Solomon 4:2 - and none Hebrews 1:8 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, each with his mate; and of the beasts that are not clean two [and two], each with his mate;

Genesis 7:3
of the fowl also of the air, seven and seven, male and female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the ground,

Genesis 7:9
there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt be blessed above all people,.... Even with temporal blessings, besides those of a religious kind; they having the oracles of God, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises, Romans 3:1,

there shall not be male or female barren among you; which to be was reckoned a reproach, and the contrary a blessing, Luke 1:25

Psalms 128:3

or among your cattle; the Targum of Jonathan is, nor thy beasts barren of wool, and milk, and lambs.