Deuteronomy 7:14
Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Benedictus eris inter omnes populos. Non erit apud te sterilis utriusque sexus, tam in hominibus quam in gregibus tuis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εὐλογητὸς ἔσῃ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη· οὐκ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἄγονος οὐδὲ στεῖρα, καὶ ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσίν σου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בָּר֥וּךְ תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה מִכָּל הָעַמִּ֑ים לֹא יִהְיֶ֥ה בְךָ֛ עָקָ֥ר וַֽעֲקָרָ֖ה וּבִבְהֶמְתֶּֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Cattle. This shews, that no precept to marry is here given, but only a blessing. Even men cannot be commanded not to be barren, as that is not in their own power. It was, however, deemed a mark of some secret transgression when married people had no children. (Vasques.) (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.