Deuteronomy 33:13

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“Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,”

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BSBPD

“Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath,”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And of Joseph he said: --Blessed of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 33:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
  2. Genesis 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
  3. Genesis 48:9Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
  4. Genesis 48:15Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
  5. Genesis 49:22Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
  6. Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
  7. Job 29:19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
  8. Psalms 110:3Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
  9. Proverbs 3:20By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
  10. Proverbs 19:12A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  11. Isaiah 18:4For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
  12. Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
  13. Micah 5:7Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
  14. Zechariah 8:12“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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