Deuteronomy 32:14

32:14 butter from the herd

and milk from the flock,

along with the fat of lambs,

rams and goats of Bashan,

along with the best of the kernels of wheat;

and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

Deuteronomy 32:2

32:2 My teaching will drop like the rain,

my sayings will drip like the dew, ¹ 

as rain drops upon the grass,

and showers upon new growth.

Deuteronomy 4:6

4:6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding ²  to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise ³  people.”

Deuteronomy 4:1

The Privileges of the Covenant

4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances ⁴  I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ⁵  is giving you.

Deuteronomy 5:11

5:11 You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, ⁶  for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way. ⁷ 

Psalms 81:16

81:16 “I would feed Israel the best wheat, ⁸ 

and would satisfy your appetite ⁹  with honey from the rocky cliffs.” ¹⁰ 

Psalms 147:14

147:14 He ¹¹  brings peace to your territory. ¹² 

He abundantly provides for you ¹³  the best grain.

Ezekiel 27:17

27:17 Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith, ¹⁴  millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.

[32:2]  ¹ tn Or “mist,” “light drizzle.” In some contexts the term appears to refer to light rain, rather than dew.

[4:6]  ² tn Heb “it is wisdom and understanding.”

[4:6]  ³ tn Heb “wise and understanding.”

[4:1]  ⁴ tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.

[4:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “take up the name of the Lord your God to emptiness”; KJV “take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The idea here is not cursing or profanity in the modern sense of these terms but rather the use of the divine Name for unholy, mundane purposes, that is, for meaningless (the Hebrew term is שָׁוְא) and empty ends. In ancient Israel this would include using the Lord’s name as a witness in vows one did not intend to keep.

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “who takes up his name to emptiness.”

[81:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “and he fed him from the best of the wheat.” The Hebrew text has a third person form of the preterite with a vav (ו) consecutive attached. However, it is preferable, in light of the use of the first person in v. 14 and in the next line, to emend the verb to a first person form and understand the vav as conjunctive, continuing the apodosis of the conditional sentence of vv. 13-14. The third masculine singular pronominal suffix refers to Israel, as in v. 6.

[81:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “you.” The second person singular pronominal suffix refers to Israel, as in vv. 7-10.

[81:16]  ¹⁰ sn The language in this verse, particularly the references to wheat and honey, is reminiscent of Deut 32:13-14.

[147:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the one who.”

[147:14]  ¹² tn Heb “he makes your boundary peace.”

[147:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “satisfies you with.”

[27:17]  ¹⁴ sn The location is mentioned in Judg 11:33.