26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.
Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.
Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
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. And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies
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Commentary on Exodus 23 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 23
This chapter continues and concludes the acts that passed in the first session (if I may so call it) upon mount Sinai. Here are,
Exd 23:1-9
Here are,
Exd 23:10-19
Here is,
Exd 23:20-33
Three gracious promises are here made to Israel, to engage them to their duty and encourage them in it; and each of the promises has some needful precepts and cautions joined to it.