Deuteronomy 28 · Verse 6

Deuteronomy 28:6

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Deuteronomy 28:6, King James Version

Deuteronomy 28:6 in other translations

BSBYou will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
WEBYou shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.
ASVBlessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
YLT‘Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out.
DARBYBlessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.
BBEA blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.
WebsterBlessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

What does Deuteronomy 28:6 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 When thou comest in - From thy employment, thou shalt find that no evil has happened to the family or dwelling in thy absence. When thou goest out - Thy way shall be made prosperous before thee, and thou shalt have the Divine blessing in all thy labors.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 28:1-14

This chapter is a very large exposition of two words, the blessing and the curse. They are real things and have real effects. The blessings are here put before the curses. God is slow to anger, but swift to show mercy. It is his delight to bless. It is better that we should be drawn to what is good by a child-like hope of God's favour, than that we be frightened to it by a slavish fear of his wrath. The blessing is…

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Deuteronomy 28:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בָּר֥וּךְba.Rukh[will be] blessedH1288
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859
בְּבֹאֶ֑ךָbe.vo.'E.khawhen coming youH935
וּבָר֥וּךְu.va.Rukhand [will be] blessedH1288
אַתָּ֖ה'a.TahyouH859
בְּצֵאתֶֽךָ\׃be.tze.Te.khawhen going out youH3318

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 28:6

  • Psalms 121:8

    The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

  • Numbers 27:17

    Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

  • 2 Chronicles 1:10

    Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

  • 2 Samuel 3:25

    Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

  • Deuteronomy 31:2

    And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
31:2; Nu 27:17; 2Sa 3:25; 2Ch 1:10; Ps 121:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 28:5

    Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

  • Deuteronomy 28:6

    Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

  • Deuteronomy 28:7

    The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

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Deuteronomy 28:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Bendito serás en tu entrar, y bendito en tu salir.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu seras béni en entrant, et tu seras béni en sortant.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Gesegnet wirst du sein bei deinem Eingang, und gesegnet wirst du sein bei deinem Ausgang.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Benedictus eris tu ingrediens et egrediens.