Deuteronomy 11:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

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  • Ps 72:5 : 5 May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.
  • Prov 4:10 : 10 Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
  • Prov 9:11 : 11 For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
  • Deut 6:2 : 2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.
  • Ps 89:28-29 : 28 I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. 29 His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.
  • Isa 65:20 : 20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

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  • Deut 11:8-9
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    8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

    9 And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 11:17-20
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    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

    18 So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;

    19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

    20 Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:

  • Deut 30:20
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    20 In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  • Deut 4:40
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    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Eph 6:3
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    3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

  • Deut 28:11
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    11 And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • Deut 7:13
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    13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

  • Deut 6:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

    3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 1:10-11
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    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

    11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

  • Exod 20:12
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    12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 8:1
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    1 Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.

  • Deut 5:16
    78%

    16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 11:22
    77%

    22 For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

  • Deut 30:16
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    16 In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 32:46-47
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    46 Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

    47 And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Deut 30:5
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    5 Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

  • Deut 12:28
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    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 31:13
    76%

    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Neh 9:23
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    23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

  • Exod 13:11
    75%

    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Prov 3:2
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    2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
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    8 So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

  • Exod 23:26
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    26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31 So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Deut 19:8
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    8 And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

  • Deut 5:33
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    33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

  • Deut 11:27
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    27 The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
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    40 So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Deut 6:9-10
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    9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • Ps 115:14
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    14 May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

  • Deut 6:18
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    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 28:8
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    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Prov 9:11
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    11 For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

  • Deut 4:10
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    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Deut 29:13
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    13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Gen 22:17
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    17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

  • Deut 30:9
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    9 And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:

  • Ps 128:5
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    5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Exod 32:13
    73%

    13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

  • Deut 29:9
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    9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.