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Later text
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
Earlier text
Genesis 1:28BSB
God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth."
As the wilderness generation prepares to enter the land, Moses promises that God "will bless you and multiply (rābâ) you" and "bless the fruit of your womb" — the Adamic commission's fruitfulness mandate reissued as the covenant blessing of Sinai. The doubled blessing-language deliberately echoes Gen 1:28's opening wayəbārek ("God blessed them"), and the "fruit of your womb" renders concrete the pārâ ("be fruitful") clause. The land-entering Israel thus inherits the commission as the conditional blessing of the Sinai covenant: faithfulness brings the Edenic fruitfulness of multiplied descendants in a fruitful land. The commission and the land-promise converge here, as Israel — the corporate Adam — is poised to fill and subdue the promised land, an Eden-in-miniature. The trajectory lands in the Last Adam, through whom the multiplied, blessed seed becomes a people from every nation (Matt 28:18-20) inheriting the consummated land, the new creation (Rev 22).