Deuteronomy 32:14

He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock, 1 with fat of lambs, 1 rams of Bashan and goats, 1 with the finest of the wheat— 1 and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes. 1

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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.

In Context

13He made him ride on high places of the land, 1 and he fed him the fruits of the field; 1 he nourished him with honey from the rock, 1 and oil from the flinty crag. 1

15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— 1 you grew fat, you were too fat, and you had eaten your fill— 1 he abandoned the God who made him, 1 and he rejected the Rock of his salvation. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 49:11Binding his donkey to the vine, 1 and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, 1 he has washed his garments in wine, 1 and his robe in the blood of grapes. 1

Judges 5:25The man asked for water, and she gave him milk; 1 she brought him butter in a dish fit for princes. 1

Nehemiah 9:25They captured the fortified cities and a productive land, and they captured houses full of all good things, cisterns already cut out, vineyards and olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and enjoyed themselves in your great goodness.

Job 20:17He will not enjoy the streams, 1 the torrents of honey and butter. 1

Psalms 81:16I would feed Israel with the finest wheat; 1 I would satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

Isaiah 7:15He will eat curds and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:8-15

7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord 's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept… Read the whole commentary →

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