Deuteronomy 6:3 BSB

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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ASV

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

KJV

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it - Literally, Ye shall hear, O Israel, and thou shalt keep to do them. 1. God is to be heard; no obligation without law to found it on, and no law in religion but from God. 2. The commandment must be understood in order to be obeyed. 3. It must be observed - attentively considered, in order to be understood. And,

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֤	ve.sha.ma'.Ta	and you will hear	H8085 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	Yis.ra.'El	O Israel	H3478 →
וְשָׁמַרְתָּ֣	ve.sha.mar.Ta	and you will take care	H8104 →
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת	la.'a.Sot	to observe [them]	H6213 →
אֲשֶׁר֙	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
יִיטַ֣ב	yi.Tav	it will go well	H3190 →
לְךָ֔	le.Kha	for you
וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר	va.'a.Sher	and that	H834 →
תִּרְבּ֖וּן	tir.Bun	you will increase !	H7235 →
מְאֹ֑ד	me.'Od	exceedingly	H3966 →
כַּאֲשֶׁר֩	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
דִּבֶּ֨ר	di.Ber	he spoke	H1696 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵ֤י	'e.lo.Hei	[the] God of	H430 →
אֲבֹתֶ֙יךָ֙	'a.vo.Tei.kha	ancestors your	H1 →
לָ֔ךְ	Lakh	to you
אֶ֛רֶץ	'E.retz	a land	H776 →
זָבַ֥ת	za.Vat	flowing of	H2100 →
חָלָ֖ב	cha.Lav	milk	H2461 →
וּדְבָֽשׁ׃ פ	u.de.Vash	and honey	H1706 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
leads to
- Genesis 15:5
  And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
leads to
- Genesis 50:24
  Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
- Exodus 3:17
  And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Genesis 15:18–21
  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Deuteronomy 1:25
  They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- Exodus 13:5
  And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
Through
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through…
leads to
- Acts 3:25
  And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
leads to
- Hebrews 11:12
  And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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