Teks -- Deuteronomy 33:14 (NET)

33:14 with the harvest produced by the daylight and by the moonlight;

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Deu 33:14 - By the sun

Which opens and warms the earth, cherishes and improves and in due time ripens the seeds and fruits of it.

Wesley: Deu 33:14 - The moon

Which by its moisture refreshes and promotes them. Heb. Of the moons, or months, that is, which it bringeth forth in the several months or seasons of the year.

JFB: Deu 33:13-17 - of Joseph he said

The territory of this tribe, diversified by hill and dale, wood and water, would be rich in all the productions--olives, grapes, figs, &c., which are reared in a mountainous region, as well as in the grain and herbs that grow in the level fields. "The firstling of the bullock and the horns of the unicorn" (rhinoceros), indicate glory and strength, and it is supposed that under these emblems were shadowed forth the triumphs of Joshua and the new kingdom of Jeroboam, both of whom were of Ephraim (compare Gen 48:20).

Clarke: Deu 33:14 - The precious fruits brought forth by the sun

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.

TSK: Deu 33:14 - the precious // put forth // moon

the precious : Deu 28:8; Lev 26:4; 2Sa 23:4; Psa 65:9-13, Psa 74:16, Psa 84:11; Mal 4:2; Mat 5:45; Act 14:17; 1Ti 6:17

put forth : Heb. thrust forth

moon : Heb. moons, Psa 8:3, Psa 104:19; Rev 22:2

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Deu 33:14 - By the sun // By the moon

By the sun which opens and warms the earth, cherisheth and improveth, and in due time ripeneth the seeds and fruits of the earth.

By the moon which by its moisture refreshes and promotes them Heb. of the moons , or months , i.e. which it bringeth forth in the several months or seasons of the year.

Haydock: Deu 33:14 - Moon

Moon; both those which are annual, as wheat, and those which come every month. (Chaldean) The sun and moon greatly contribute to nourish (Haydock) and to bring fruit to maturity. (Pliny, [Natural History?] ii. 100. (Calmet) ---

Both the tribes of Ephraim and of Manasses inhabited a fertile region. (Menochius)

Gill: Deu 33:14 - And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun // and for the precious things put forth by the moon

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 Mal 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 Rev 22:2.