Deuteronomy 11:21

21 so that [they] may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give [it] to them {as long as heaven endures over the earth}.

Deuteronomy 11:21 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 11:21

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 Deuteronomy 30:20 ) ( Psalms 91:16 )

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.

Deuteronomy 11:21 In-Context

19 And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

20 And you shall write them on the doorframes of your house and on your gates,

21 so that [they] may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give [it] to them {as long as heaven endures over the earth}.

22 Yes, if you diligently keep all this commandment that I [am] commanding you {to observe it}, by loving Yahweh your God {by walking in} all his ways and by holding fast to him,

23 then Yahweh will drive out all [of] these nations {before you}, and you will dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fathers"
• [b]. Literally "like the days of heaven above the earth"