Text: Deuteronomy 7:13 — "He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land."
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 1:28
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Schnittjer, Old Testament Use of Old Testament)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: 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).