Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 8 Holy Bible
a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
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A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
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a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
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A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
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A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive-oil, and honey;
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a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
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a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - "Palestine has been celebrated in all ages for three products: corn, wine, and oil, which still continue to be its most valuable crops" (Ibid., p. 189). The principal corn crops were wheat and barley. The vine was largely and carefully cultivated; the olive required little cultivation, being almost a spontaneous growth, and forming one of the most valuable productions of the country; the fig was also indigenous in Palestine, and still grows there, both wild and cultivated, in abundance; that the pomegranate (firemen) also was very abundant may be inferred from the number of places named from this (cf. Joshua 15:32; Joshua 19:7, 13; Judges 20:45, 47; Judges 21:13; 1 Chronicles 4:32, etc.). Honey. The word so rendered (d'bash) is used both of the honey of bees (Leviticus 2:11; Deuteronomy 32:11; 1 Samuel 14:26, etc.; Psalm 81:17; Proverbs 16:24, etc.), and of the honey of grapes, a syrup obtained by boiling down the newly expressed juice of the grape to a half or third part of its bulk, and still known among the Arabs by the name of dibs (Robinson, 'Bib. Res.,' it. p. 442; Smith, Bib. Dict.,' s.v. 'Honey'). In the wilderness, the people had murmured that they had been brought into an evil place, no place of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; and where there was no water to drink (Numbers 20:5). Moses here tells them that the land they were about to occupy was not such a place, but one abounding in all those things of which they had found the wilderness so destitute.
