He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.
KJV
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
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He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly,.... Not only their fields and vineyards are blessed with an increase, but these husbandmen themselves; as man at his first creation was bid to do, being blessed of God; and as the Israelites were in Egypt,
Gen 1:28
and which may spiritually denote the great number of converts to Christian churches, especially in the latter day,
Jer 30:19
.
And suffereth not their cattle to decrease; their sheep and oxen, which is reckoned a great temporal happiness,
Psa 144:13
, and may signify that God does and will give a sufficient number of Gospel ministers, comparable to oxen for their laboriousness, that shall in all ages minister to his churches; see
Co1 9:9
.
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