KJV King James Version
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
WEB World English Bible
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
ASV American Standard Version
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, and rams, sons of Bashan, And he-goats, with fat of kidneys of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou dost drink wine!
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered [with fatness]; then he forsook God [which] made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
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חֶמְאַ֨תH2529 · chem.ahcurdבָּקָ֜רH1241 · ba.qarcattleוַחֲלֵ֣בH2461 · cha.lavmilkצֹ֗אןH6629 · tsonflockעִם־H5973 · imwithחֵ֨לֶבH2459 · che.levfatכָּרִ֜יםH3733 · karsaddleוְאֵילִ֤יםH352 · a.yilramבְּנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childבָשָׁן֙H1316 · ba.shanBashanוְעַתּוּדִ֔יםH6260 · at.tudgoatעִם־H5973 · imwithחֵ֖לֶבH2459 · che.levfatכִּלְי֣וֹתH3629 · kil.yahkidneyחִטָּ֑הH2406 · chit.tahwheatוְדַם־H1818 · dambloodעֵנָ֖בH6025 · e.navgrapeתִּשְׁתֶּה־H8354 · sha.tahto drinkחָֽמֶר׃H2561 · che.merwine
Cross-references
Genesis 49:11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:Psalm 81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.Psalm 147:14He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.John 6:55-56For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.Isaiah 7:22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.2 Samuel 17:29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.Psalm 22:12Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.Ezekiel 39:18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.Matthew 26:28-29For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.Judges 5:25He asked water, [and] she gave [him] milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.Genesis 18:8And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.Micah 7:14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.Amos 4:1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that [are] in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.Job 20:17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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