Deuteronomy 7:15

"You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock."

Key Reflection

This passage promises both physical and spiritual blessings, indicating a comprehensive covenant where the people of Israel would experience prosperity in their families and animals. Such blessings signify God’s favor and intention for abundant life, not just materially but spiritually as well.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

There seems to be here not so much as a reference to the plagues inflicted miraculously by God on Egypt (compareExodus 15:26), as to the terrible diseases with which, above other countries, Egypt was infested. CompareDeuteronomy 28:27,Deuteronomy 28:35. It is not without significance that Egypt, which represents in Scripture the world as contrasted with the Church, should thus above other lands lie under the power of disease and death.

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