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Deuteronomy 33:14
with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the tribes of Israel during his final benediction, specifically describing the agricultural blessings promised to Joseph's territory.
The words — The Hebrew text uses מֶגֶד (meged) for "excellent gift" alongside תְּבוּאֹת שָׁמֶשׁ (tevu'ot shemesh, "produce of the sun") and גֶּרֶשׁ יְרָחִים (gereš yərāḥîm, "yield of the months").
The thread — This description of seasonal harvests parallels the covenant conditions in Leviticus 26:4 and the promised barn blessings of Deuteronomy 28:8.
Why it lands — The verse first records the physical reality of sun-driven and month-cycle harvests before establishing that such agricultural cycles are granted blessings rather than guaranteed by human labor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Cross-references
- Leviticus 26:4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
- 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- Psalms 8:3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—
- Psalms 65:9 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Psalms 74:16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- Psalms 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Psalms 104:19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
- Malachi 4:2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Matthew 5:45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.