申命记 33:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

得著從太陽而來的上好之物，每月所產的佳果；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
得 太 阳 所 晒 熟 的 美 果 ， 月 亮 所 养 成 的 宝 物 ；

Contextual Overview

¹² Moses said this about the people of Benjamin: "The Lord 's loved ones will lie down in safety, because he protects them all day long. The ones he loves rest with him." ¹³ Moses said this about the people of Joseph: "May the Lord bless their land with wonderful dew from heaven, with water from the springs below, ¹⁴ with the best fruits that the sun brings, and with the best fruits that the moon brings. ¹⁵ Let the old mountains give the finest crops, and let the everlasting hills give the best fruits. ¹⁶ Let the full earth give the best fruits, and let the Lord who lived in the burning bush be pleased. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the forehead of the one who was blessed among his brothers. ¹⁷ Joseph has the majesty of a firstborn bull; he is as strong as a wild ox. He will stab other nations, even those nations far away. These are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasseh."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the precious: Deuteronomy 28:8, Leviticus 26:4, 2 Samuel 23:4, Psalms 65:9-13, Psalms 74:16, Psalms 84:11, Malachi 4:2, Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:17, 1 Timothy 6:17

put forth: Heb. thrust forth

moon: Heb. moons, Psalms 8:3, Psalms 104:19, Revelation 22:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:11 - carry down Psalms 37:20 - as the fat of lambs Psalms 104:25 - this great

Cross-References

Genesis 32:3
Jacob's brother Esau was living in the area called Seir in the country of Edom. Jacob sent messengers to Esau,

Genesis 33:2
Jacob put the slave girls with their children first, then Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Genesis 33:3
Jacob himself went out in front of them and bowed down flat on the ground seven times as he was walking toward his brother.

Genesis 33:19
He bought a part of the field where he had camped from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver.

Deuteronomy 2:1
Then we turned around, and we traveled on the desert road toward the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me to do. We traveled through the mountains of Edom for many days.

Judges 5:4
" Lord , when you came from Edom, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth shook, the skies rained, and the clouds dropped water.

2 Chronicles 20:10
"But now here are men from Ammon, Moab, and Edom. You wouldn't let the Israelites enter their lands when the Israelites came from Egypt. So the Israelites turned away and did not destroy them.

Isaiah 40:11
He takes care of his people like a shepherd. He gathers them like lambs in his arms and carries them close to him. He gently leads the mothers of the lambs.

Ezekiel 25:8
"This is what the Lord God says: ‘Moab and Edom say, "The people of Judah are like all the other nations."

Mark 4:33
Jesus used many stories like these to teach the crowd God's message—as much as they could understand.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun,.... Which has a wonderful influence upon many and most of the fruits of the earth, to produce them out of their seeds in it, to bring them forward, to ripen and perfect them, and to make them rich and excellent. Jarchi says,

"the land of Joseph lay open to the sun, and it sweetened the fruits of it;''

it improved them, and made them more valuable; and this is spiritually true of Christ the sun of righteousness, to whose influence are owing the blessings of grace, redemption, peace, pardon, and justification, and the graces of the Spirit, faith, hope, and love, and by what believers are filled with, the fruits of righteousness, see Malachi 4:2;

and for the precious things put forth by the moon; the fruits which the moon helps forward by its coolness and moisture; and those the above Jewish writer says are cucumbers and gourds; and as various creatures are affected by the moon, it is observed by a naturalist o, that onions, when the moon waxes old, increase, and flag when it is young; and Pliny says p, that at the increase of the moon all sort of corn grows bigger and larger; but a late learned writer q remarks, that though upon the pressure of the moon on the globe many things depend, as the ebbing and flowing of the sea, epileptic and convulsive paroxysms, yet it does not appear that this pressure exerts its power on plants, so as to thrust them forth, and therefore thinks this respects the ejection or protrusion of monthly fruits; for the word here used is in the plural number, and signifies "months"; and so Onkelos paraphrases the words,

"it produces precious fruits at the beginning of every month;''

or ripe fruit at the beginning of every month, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; for the spiritual meaning, see Revelation 22:2.

o Dalecamp. in Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 41. p Nat. Hist. l. 18. c. 30. q Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 437.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Comparing the words of Moses with those of Jacob, it will be seen that the patriarch dwells with emphasis on the severe conflicts which Joseph, i. e., Ephraim and Manasseh, would undergo (compare Genesis 49:23-24); while the lawgiver seems to look beyond, and to behold the two triumphant and established in their power.

Deuteronomy 33:17

Rather: “The first-born of his” (i. e. Joseph’s) “bullock is his glory”: the reference being to Ephraim, who was raised by Jacob to the honors of the firstborn (Genesis 48:20, and is here likened to the firstling of Joseph’s oxen, i. e., of Joseph’s offspring. The ox is a common emblem of power and strength.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 33:14. The precious fruits brought forth by the sun — All excellent and important productions of the earth, which come to perfection once in the year. So the precious things put forth by the moon may imply those vegetables which require but about a month to bring them to perfection, or vegetables of which several crops may be had in the course of a year.