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12 The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.(A)

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When the Lord your God has blessed you, as he promised you, you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.(A)

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23 O children of Zion, be glad,
    and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain[a] for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    the early and the later rain, as before.(A)
24 The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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  1. 2.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.(A)

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The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.(A)

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14 then he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, and you will gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil,(A)

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  1. 11.14 Sam Gk Vg: MT I

29 the Levites, because they have no allotment or inheritance with you, as well as the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows in your towns, may come and eat their fill so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work that you undertake.(A)

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I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth;
    he makes lightnings for the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)

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You visit the earth and water it;
    you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
    you provide the people with grain,
    for so you have prepared it.(A)
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
    the hills gird themselves with joy;(B)
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks;
    the valleys deck themselves with grain;
    they shout and sing together for joy.(C)

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44 They shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to them; they shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.(A)

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22 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
    or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,(A)

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