Deuteronomy 11:21
 Deuteronomy 11:21 
New International Version (©2011)
so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

New Living Translation (©2007)
so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors.

English Standard Version (©2001)
that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
so that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens remain above the earth.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
so that as long as the heavens are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be many in the land the LORD swore to give your fathers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
so that you and your children may live long on the land that the LORD promised to give your ancestors—as long as the sky remains above the earth."

NET Bible (©2006)
so that your days and those of your descendants may be extended in the land which the LORD promised to give to your ancestors, like the days of heaven itself.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then you and your children will live for a long time in this land that the LORD swore to give to your ancestors-as long as there's a sky above the earth.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

American King James Version
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven on the earth.

American Standard Version
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Jehovah swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens which are above the earth.

English Revised Version
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

World English Bible
that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:18-25 Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections, and good principles in the heart. 2. Let our eyes be fixed upon the word of God, having constant regard to it as the guide of our way, as the rule of our work, Ps 119:30. 3. Let our tongues be employed about the word of God. Nor will any thing do more to cause prosperity, and keeping up religion in a nation, than the good education of children.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - (Cf. Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 6:2.) As the days of heaven upon the earth; as long as the heavens continue stretched over the earth, i.e. to the end of time, forever (cf. Job 14:12; Psalm 89:29; Genesis 8:22).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That your days may be multiplied,.... Long life being a very desirable blessing, and which is promised to those that obey and keep the law; see Deuteronomy 30:19.

and the days of your children; which are dear to parents, and the continuance of whose lives, next to their own, is most desirable, yea, as desirable as their own; and especially it is desirable that they might have a posterity descending from them, to enjoy for ever their estates and possessions; as it was to the people of Israel, that they might have a seed always to dwell

in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them; the land of Canaan, so often spoken of as the promise, oath, and gift of God:

as the days of heaven upon the earth; that is, as long as the heavens and the earth shall be, and the one shall be over the other, as they will be to the end of time.


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Remember God's Words
20And you shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates: 21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven on the earth. 22For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to join to him; …

Psalm 72:5 May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations.
Psalm 89:29 I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.
Proverbs 3:2 for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Proverbs 4:10 Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 9:11 For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.