Deuteronomy 32:14

Curd of kine Fermented milk, Ar. leben.

fat of lambs and of rams So LXX, bringing forward ramsfrom next line.

Bulls of Bashán Lit. the sons, or breed, of Bashán (Deuteronomy 3:1), celebrated for its steers, Psalms 22:12 (13), etc.

fat of the kidneys The richest fat, Leviticus 3:4; Isaiah 34:6; here figuratively of the richest wheat.

blood of the grape thou drankest in foam] There is no need to read with the LXX he drank(so Steuern. to harmonise with the next line), nor to take the line as a gloss (Marti), though it be an odd line and not one of a couplet. This is the climax of the passage of Israel from the nomadic to the agricultural stage of life, and is still regarded as the last distinction of the fellaḥ from the Bedawee; cp. Deuteronomy 33:28; Genesis 49:11 f. Foam(EVV. wine), Heb. ḥemerfrom root ḥmr, to fermentor foam; cp. Psalms 46:3 (4), Psalms 75:8 (9).