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Deuteronomy 33:23

And to Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.

Challoner: The seaThe lake of Genesareth.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et Nephthali dixit : Nephthali abundantia perfruetur, et plenus erit benedictionibus Domini : mare et meridiem possidebit.
Septuagint (Swete): Καὶ τῷ Νεφθαλεὶμ εἶπεν Νεφθαλεὶμ πλησμονὴ δεκτῶν, καὶ ἐμπλησθήτω εὐλογίαν παρὰ Κυρίου· θάλασσαν καὶ λίβα κληρονομήσει.
Hebrew (WLC): וּלְנַפְתָּלִ֣י אָמַ֔ר נַפְתָּלִי֙ שְׂבַ֣ע רָצ֔וֹן וּמָלֵ֖א בִּרְכַּ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה יָ֥ם וְדָר֖וֹם יְרָֽשָׁה

Haydock's commentary

The sea. The lake of Genesareth. (Challoner)

South. That lake forms the southern extremity of the tribe of Nephthali. (Haydock)

The Mediterranean, and the countries south of Palestine, are commonly understood in this manner, but they cannot be understood here. (Calmet)

By means of their neighbours of Tyre and Sidon, (Menochius) and of Zabulon, who lay on the west, (Haydock) they would be supplied with all the luxuries of the sea and of the south. (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.