Deuteronomy 33:14
Of the fruits brought forth by the sun and by the moon.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- De pomis fructuum solis ac lunæ,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ καθ᾽ ὥραν γενημάτων ἡλίου τροπῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ συνόδων μηνῶν,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמִמֶּ֖גֶד תְּבוּאֹ֣ת שָׁ֑מֶשׁ וּמִמֶּ֖גֶד גֶּ֥רֶשׁ יְרָחִֽים
Haydock's commentary
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)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter XCI. The cross was foretold
“And God by Moses shows in another way the force of the mystery of the cross, when He said in the blessing wherewith Joseph was blessed, ‘From the blessing of the Lord is his land; for the seasons of heaven, and for the dews, and for the deep springs from beneath, and for the seasonable fruits of the sun, and for the coming together of the months, and for the heights of the everlasting mountains, and for the heights of the hills, and for the ever-flowing rivers, and for the fruits of the fatness of the earth; and let the things accepted by Him who appeared in the bush come on the head and crown of Joseph. …