Deuteronomy 7:13

love … bless … and multiply thee Cp. Genesis 22:17 (E?), Genesis 26:24 (J), blessand multiply; note the characteristic addition loveby D. The blessings which follow are material; similarly but varied in Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:11; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:51; Deuteronomy 30:9, all Sg. Note the interesting differences in Hosea's similar lists: bread, water, wool, flax, oil, drink, corn, wine, oil(Hosea 2:5; Hosea 2:8 f., Hosea 2:15; Hosea 2:22). Hosea, writing for the N. kingdom, gives flax, which D omits; all the rest are characteristic of Judah. Hosea's treatment of the subject is more spiritual; he gives the moral blessings of the relation of Jehovah and Israel in greater, the material in less, detail than D.

fruit of thy body womb, as in A.V.; Genesis 30:2 (E).

corn … wine … oil Deuteronomy 11:14; Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 14:23; Deuteronomy 28:51. The terms used denote these products in a less manufactured slate. Wine is tîrôshnot yain, corn dagannot ḥiṭṭim, oil yiṣharnot shemen. Tîrôsh, though not entirely unfermented or harmless (Hosea 4:11), was nevertheless a much fresher extract of the grape than yain, it is new wineor must; daganis corn which has been threshed out (Numbers 18:27); and yiṣharis fresh oil(abb. from Driver in locoand on pp. xx f. of his 3rd ed.).

the increase of thy kine Deuteronomy 28:4; Deuteronomy 28:18; Deuteronomy 28:51: what drops fromor is cast by, an animal; Exodus 13:12 (J) that cometh of a beast. Nowhere else. Kine, rather cattle, the noun is masc.

the young of thy flock Lit. the -Ashtoreths. -A phrase like this, which has descended from religion into ordinary life, and is preserved among the monotheistic Hebrews, is very old evidence for the association of Astarte with the sheep." (W. R. Smith, Rel. of the Semites, 458.)

in the land, etc.] See Deuteronomy 6:10: after sware, Sam. and LXX read Jehovah.