Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Deuteronomy 33:14
And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
14. walketh ] walketh up and down (also of God in J, Gen 3:8, and 2Sa 7:6 f.). Cp. especially 1Sa 4:7, a god is come into the camp; and above Deu 20:1; Deu 20:4; Deu 20:13, Deu 21:10 of the presence of Jehovah with the host. On deliver cp. Deu 20:4; and to give up, before thee, see on Deu 1:8. Holy, set apart from anything unclean. He must not see the nakedness of anything, anything shameful or indecent. Here the idea is wider than that of ritual uncleanness, and indicates an advance of feeling on the more primitive sentiment. No sanitary reason is implied, but it is interesting that such religious or aesthetic motives produced sanitary results.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
14. growth ] Yield or drop, what is thrust forth, only here. LXX .
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 14. The precious fruits brought forth by the sun] All excellent and important productions of the earth, which come to perfection once in the year. So the precious things put forth by the moon may imply those vegetables which require but about a month to bring them to perfection, or vegetables of which several crops may be had in the course of a year.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
By the sun, which opens and warms the earth, cherisheth and improveth, and in due time ripeneth the seeds and fruits of the earth.
By the moon, which by its moisture refreshes and promotes them Heb. of the moons, or months, i.e. which it bringeth forth in the several months or seasons of the year.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun,…. Which has a wonderful influence upon many and most of the fruits of the earth, to produce them out of their seeds in it, to bring them forward, to ripen and perfect them, and to make them rich and excellent. Jarchi says,
“the land of Joseph lay open to the sun, and it sweetened the fruits of it;”
it improved them, and made them more valuable; and this is spiritually true of Christ the sun of righteousness, to whose influence are owing the blessings of grace, redemption, peace, pardon, and justification, and the graces of the Spirit, faith, hope, and love, and by what believers are filled with, the fruits of righteousness, see Mal 4:2;
and for the precious things put forth by the moon; the fruits which the moon helps forward by its coolness and moisture; and those the above Jewish writer says are cucumbers and gourds; and as various creatures are affected by the moon, it is observed by a naturalist o, that onions, when the moon waxes old, increase, and flag when it is young; and Pliny says p, that at the increase of the moon all sort of corn grows bigger and larger; but a late learned writer q remarks, that though upon the pressure of the moon on the globe many things depend, as the ebbing and flowing of the sea, epileptic and convulsive paroxysms, yet it does not appear that this pressure exerts its power on plants, so as to thrust them forth, and therefore thinks this respects the ejection or protrusion of monthly fruits; for the word here used is in the plural number, and signifies “months”; and so Onkelos paraphrases the words,
“it produces precious fruits at the beginning of every month;”
or ripe fruit at the beginning of every month, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; for the spiritual meaning, see Re 22:2.
o Dalecamp. in Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 41. p Nat. Hist. l. 18. c. 30. q Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 437.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(14) And for the precious fruits.The increase of the sun and precious things put forth from month to month (or by night when the moon rules), are next alluded to.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Deu 33:14 And for the precious fruits [brought forth] by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
Ver. 14. And for the precious fruits. ] So St James calleth them, “The precious fruits of the earth.” Jam 5:7 Diogenes justly taxed the folly of his countrymen, Quod res pretiosas minimo emerent, venderentque vilissimas plurimo, because they bought precious things, as grain, very cheap, but sold the basest things, as pictures, statues, &c., extremely dear, fifty pounds or more a-piece; though the life of man had no need of a statue, but could not subsist without grain. May not we more justly tax men for undervaluing the bread of life, and “spending money for that which is not bread?” Isa 4:1
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
moon. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct) for months. App-6.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the precious: Deu 28:8, Lev 26:4, 2Sa 23:4, Psa 65:9-13, Psa 74:16, Psa 84:11, Mal 4:2, Mat 5:45, Act 14:17, 1Ti 6:17
put forth: Heb. thrust forth
moon: Heb. moons, Psa 8:3, Psa 104:19, Rev 22:2
Reciprocal: Gen 43:11 – carry down Psa 37:20 – as the fat of lambs Psa 104:25 – this great