📜WEB · Deuteronomy 11:21

What does Deuteronomy 11:21 mean?

"that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth."

— Deuteronomy 11:21 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

18

Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

19

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

20

You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates;

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that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

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For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;

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then Yahweh will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

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Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the western sea shall be your border.

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