Deuteronomy 33:11

Yahweh, bless their work and ◄accept/be pleased with► all that they do. Crush/Destroy all their enemies; do not enable their enemies to be able to fight against them again.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

In Context

10The tribe of Levi will teach the Israeli people [DOU] your rules and regulations, and they are the ones who will burn incense and who will completely burn on the altar the offerings that the people bring.

12I say this about the tribe of Benjamin: They are the tribe that Yahweh loves; he keeps them safe. He protects them continually, and he lives among their hills [MET].

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Cross References

Numbers 18:8Yahweh also said to Aaron, “I myself have appointed you to take care of all the sacred offerings that the Israeli people bring to me. I have given all these sacred offerings to you and to your sons. You and your descendants will get a share of these offerings permanently.

Deuteronomy 18:1“The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned on the altar to be sacrificed to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.

Psalms 20:3I desire/hope that he will accept all the offerings that you give him to be burned on the altar, and all your other offerings. (Think about that!)

Jeremiah 15:10I said to my mother, “I am very sad; I wish that you had not given birth to me; everyone in this land opposes me and quarrels with me. I am not a person who lends money to people and threatens to sue/harm them if they do not pay me back when they should, and I am not a person who borrows money from others and then refuses to pay it back, but everyone [HYP] curses me.”

Ezekiel 20:40I, Yahweh your Lord, declare that there on my sacred hill, Zion, that high hill in Israel, you will bring gifts to me, and I will accept them. I will require you to bring to me gifts and offerings there, and your sacrifices that are dedicated to me.

Amos 5:10He is the one who will punish you because you hate those who challenge anyone who tries to make unjust decisions, and you hate those who tell the truth in your courts.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 33:9-12

8 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. 11 Bless, Lord , his… Read the whole commentary →

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