Exodus 23:25

THE MESSAGE

"But you—you serve your God and he'll bless your food and your water. I'll get rid of the sickness among you; there won't be any miscarriages nor barren women in your land. I'll make sure you live full and complete lives.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

King James Version
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Lexham English Bible
And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you.

New Century Version
If you worship the Lord your God, I will bless your bread and your water. I will take away sickness from you.

New English Translation
You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Amplified Bible
"You shall serve [only] the LORD your God, and He shall bless your bread and water. I will also remove sickness from among you.

New American Standard Bible
"And you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ye shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water, & I will take all sickenes away from the middes of thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
But you shall serve Yahweh your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Contemporary English Version
Worship only me, the Lord your God! I will bless you with plenty of food and water and keep you strong.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You are to serve Adonai your God; and he will bless your food and water. I will take sickness away from among you.

Darby Translation
And ye shall serve Jehovah your God; and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from thy midst.

Easy-to-Read Version
You must serve the Lord your God. If you do this, I will bless you with plenty of bread and water. I will take away all sickness from you.

English Standard Version
You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from your houses.

Good News Translation
If you worship me, the Lord your God, I will bless you with food and water and take away all your sicknesses.

Christian Standard Bible®
Serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.

Literal Translation
And you shall serve Jehovah your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will remove sickness from your midst.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye LORDE yor God shal ye serue, so shal he blesse thy bred & thy water, and I wyl remoue all sicknesse from the.

American Standard Version
And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Bible in Basic English
And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread and thy water: and I wyll take all sicknesses away from the middest of thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

King James Version (1611)
And yee shall serue the Lord your God, and he shall blesse thy bread, and thy water: and I will take sicknes away from the midst of thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.

English Revised Version
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Berean Standard Bible
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye schulen serue to youre Lord God, that Y blesse thi looues, and watris, and do awei sikenesse fro the myddis of thee;

Young's Literal Translation
`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

Update Bible Version
And you shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

World English Bible
You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst.

New King James Version
"So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

New Living Translation
"You must serve only the Lord your God. If you do, I will bless you with food and water, and I will protect you from illness.

New Life Bible
Serve the Lord your God and He will give you bread and water. And I will take sickness from among you.

New Revised Standard
You shall worship the Lord your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from among you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall ye serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless thy bread and thy water, - and I will take away sickness out of thy midst.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall serve the Lord your God, that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may take away sickness from the midst of thee.

Revised Standard Version
You shall serve the LORD your God, and I will bless your bread and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water; and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Contextual Overview

²⁰"Now get yourselves ready. I'm sending my Angel ahead of you to guard you in your travels, to lead you to the place that I've prepared. Pay close attention to him. Obey him. Don't go against him. He won't put up with your rebellions because he's acting on my authority. But if you obey him and do everything I tell you, I'll be an enemy to your enemies, I'll fight those who fight you. When my Angel goes ahead of you and leads you to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, I'll clear the country of them. So don't worship or serve their gods; don't do anything they do because I'm going to wipe them right off the face of the Earth and smash their sacred phallic pillars to bits. ²⁵"But you—you serve your God and he'll bless your food and your water. I'll get rid of the sickness among you; there won't be any miscarriages nor barren women in your land. I'll make sure you live full and complete lives. ²⁷ "I'll send my Terror on ahead of you and throw those peoples you're approaching into a panic. All you'll see of your enemies is the backs of their necks. ²⁸"And I'll send Despair on ahead of you. It will push the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites out of your way. I won't get rid of them all at once lest the land grow up in weeds and the wild animals take over. Little by little I'll get them out of there while you have a chance to get your crops going and make the land your own. I will make your borders stretch from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Wilderness to the Euphrates River. I'm turning everyone living in that land over to you; go ahead and drive them out. ³²"Don't make any deals with them or their gods. They are not to stay in the same country with you lest they get you to sin by worshiping their gods. Beware. That's a huge danger."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And ye: Deuteronomy 6:13, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:20, Deuteronomy 11:13, Deuteronomy 11:14, Deuteronomy 13:4, Deuteronomy 28:1-6, Joshua 22:5, Joshua 24:14, Joshua 24:15, Joshua 24:21, Joshua 24:24, 1 Samuel 7:3, 1 Samuel 12:20, 1 Samuel 12:24, Jeremiah 8:2, Matthew 4:10

he shall: Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 28:5-8, Isaiah 33:16, Malachi 3:10

I will take: Exodus 15:26, Deuteronomy 7:15, Psalms 103:3, Isaiah 33:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 132:15 - bless her provision Daniel 1:15 - their Hosea 11:3 - I healed Luke 4:4 - That

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall serve the Lord your God,.... And him only, who had brought them out of Egypt, and done so many great and good things for them at the Red sea, and now in the wilderness; by which he appeared to be the true Jehovah, the one and only living God, and to be their God in covenant, who had promised them much, and had performed it; and therefore was in a special and peculiar manner their God, and they were under the highest obligations to serve and worship him in the way and manner he directed them to:

and he shall bless thy bread and thy water; and make them nourishing and refreshing to them, and preserve them thereby in health, as well as prosper and succeed them, and increase their worldly substance:

and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee; the stroke of bitterness, or the bitter stroke, as the Targum of Jonathan, any grievous disease, which is bitter and distressing; signifying that there should be none among them, but that they should be healthful, and free from distempers and diseases.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:25. Shall bless thy bread and thy water — That is, all thy provisions, no matter of what sort; the meanest fare shall be sufficiently nutritive when God's blessing is in it.