OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 7:14

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You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

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Verse 14. Cattle. This shews, that no precept to marry is here given, but only a blessing. Even men cannot be commanded not to be barren, as that is not in their own power. It was, however, deemed a mark of some secret transgression when married people had no children. Vasques. Tirinus.

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