If Israel is faithful, Yahweh promises to make her triply fruitful. Deuteronomy 28:11 uses the word “fruit” three times (bizarrely translated in different ways by the NASB): fruit of the womb, fruit of the beast, fruit of the ground. Children, animals, plants will all proliferate.
Body, beast, ground are the triple sources of Israel’s fertility. And the triad refers back to the creation account. Plants, animals, and adam come from the ground, and all three are to be fruitful and to multiply. The ground is the underlying source of all the fertility, and in giving the land to Israel Yahweh is giving them the fundamental resource that will produce her triple fertility.
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