Genesis 30:27

30:27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, ¹  for I have learned by divination ²  that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ³  you had little before I arrived, ⁴  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁵  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ⁶  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ⁷ 

Exodus 23:26

23:26 No woman will miscarry her young ⁸  or be barren in your land. I will fulfill ⁹  the number of your days.

Deuteronomy 28:4

28:4 Your children ¹⁰  will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

¹ tn The words “please stay here” have been supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

² tn Or perhaps “I have grown rich and the Lord has blessed me” (cf. NEB). See J. Finkelstein, “An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Genesis 31:38f.,” JAOS 88 (1968): 34, n. 19.

³ tn Or “for.”

⁴ tn Heb “before me.”

⁵ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

⁶ tn Heb “at my foot.”

⁷ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

⁸ tn Or “abort”; Heb “cast.”

⁹ sn No one will die prematurely; this applies to the individual or the nation. The plan of God to bless was extensive, if only the people would obey.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).