Exodus 23:25
in Exodus 23So 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.
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ASV
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.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Exodus 23
Commentary
6 notes on this verseHe shall bless thy bread and thy water - And God's blessing will make bread and water more refreshing and nourishing, than a feast of fat things, and wines on the lees, without that blessing. And I will take sickness away - Either prevent it or remove it. Thy land shall not be visited with epidemical diseases, which are very dreadful, and sometimes have laid countries waste.
This site's exposition
he shall bless thy bread, and thy water
on Exodus 23:25-26
The blessing promised for that service is ordinary, bread and water, health, children and a full count of days. I will take sickness away from the midst of thee stands with 15:26, where the name given at the bitter water was I am the LORD that healeth thee, the first occurrence of healeth in Scripture. Nothing casting their young and none barren answers a trouble that ran the length of Genesis, where Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel were each barren in turn.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
They must not only not worship their gods, but they must utterly overthrow them, in token of their great abhorrence of idolatry, their resolution never to worship idols themselves, and their care to prevent any other from worshipping them; as the converted conjurors burnt their books, Acts xix. How rich the particulars of this promise are.
And ye shall serve the Lord your God,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way--The communication of these laws, made to Moses and by him rehearsed to the people, was concluded by the addition of many animating promises, intermingled with several solemn warnings that lapses into sin and idolatry would not be tolerated or passed with impunity.
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.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗ם | vaavadtem | and you will serve | H5647 → | 288 times |
| אֵ֚ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְהוָ֣ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
| וּבֵרַ֥ךְ | uverakh | and he will bless | H1288 → | 330 times |
| אֶֽת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| לַחְמְךָ֖ | lachmekha | food your | H3899 → | 298 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מֵימֶ֑יךָ | meimeikha | water your | H4325 → | 581 times |
| וַהֲסִרֹתִ֥י | vahasiroti | and I will remove | H5493 → | 299 times |
| מַחֲלָ֖ה | machalah | sickness | H4245 → | |
| מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ | mikirbecha | from midst your | H7130 → | 227 times |
וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֗םand you will serve
vaavadtemH5647 →288 times
אֵ֚ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
יְהוָ֣הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔םGod your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
וּבֵרַ֥ךְand he will bless
uverakhH1288 →330 times
אֶֽת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
לַחְמְךָ֖food your
lachmekhaH3899 →298 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
מֵימֶ֑יךָwater your
meimeikhaH4325 →581 times
וַהֲסִרֹתִ֥יand I will remove
vahasirotiH5493 →299 times
מַחֲלָ֖הsickness
machalahH4245 →
מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃from midst your
mikirbechaH7130 →227 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 103:3He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
it leads to
- Exodus 15:26
saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 53:5
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
- Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
- Exodus 15:26
Through
Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
it leads to
- Psalms 41:3–4
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 103:3
He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
- Deuteronomy 7:15
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
- Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Psalms 41:3–4
Through
Joshua 22:5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep…
it leads to
- Matthew 22:37
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
- Matthew 22:37
Where this verse is studied
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.