Deuteronomy 28:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 14:29 : 29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
  • Deut 15:6 : 6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.
  • Lev 26:4 : 4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
  • Deut 11:14 : 14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
  • Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first. 24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
  • Prov 22:7 : 7 The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.
  • Deut 15:10 : 10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.
  • Deut 28:44 : 44 He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.
  • Job 38:22 : 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:11
    85%

    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 28:8-9
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

    9 The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

  • Deut 15:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

    5 If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

    6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.

  • Deut 30:9
    79%

    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:

  • Deut 28:13
    78%

    13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;

  • Deut 15:8
    78%

    8 But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.

  • Deut 28:44
    77%

    44 He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.

  • Deut 28:1-6
    6 verses
    77%

    1 Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

    2 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.

    3 A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.

    4 A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

    5 A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

    6 A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

  • Deut 15:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

    11 For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.

  • Deut 7:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

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

  • Isa 30:23
    76%

    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Deut 11:14
    75%

    14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

  • Deut 15:14
    74%

    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

  • Deut 11:17
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 8:7
    74%

    7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

  • Deut 8:18
    74%

    18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

  • Deut 28:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

    25 The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 23:20
    74%

    20 From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

  • Lev 26:4
    74%

    4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

  • Gen 27:28
    74%

    28 May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

  • Mal 3:12
    73%

    12 And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

  • Deut 6:11
    73%

    11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;

  • Lev 25:37
    73%

    37 Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

  • Deut 8:13
    73%

    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • Deut 8:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.

    10 And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

  • Deut 28:15
    73%

    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

  • Deut 12:28
    73%

    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 30:5
    73%

    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 12:7
    73%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • Ps 85:12
    73%

    12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.

  • Deut 26:11
    72%

    11 And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

  • Exod 22:25
    72%

    25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Mal 3:10
    72%

    10 Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

  • Deut 28:33
    72%

    33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

  • Deut 26:1
    72%

    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

  • Ps 37:26
    72%

    26 All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

  • Deut 30:1
    72%

    1 Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,

  • Deut 14:29
    72%

    29 And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.