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Deuteronomy 32:14 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 14. 14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
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Quick Meaning
Deuteronomy 32:14 fills the provision portrait with dairy, livestock, grain, and wine.
Elders are asked about an old allotment of nations
This verse is one part of that explanation in Deuteronomy 32:7–14. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Deuteronomy 32:7–14
Read Deuteronomy 32:14 with 32:7–14. It fills the provision portrait with dairy, livestock, grain, and wine. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The song tells hearers to ask elders about the nations' allotment, names Jacob as the LORD's portion, pictures finding and guarding Israel in the wilderness, and gives high places, crops, livestock, fat, and wine.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Ancient Days, Allotment, Wilderness Care, and Abundance advances Deuteronomy's movement from remembered wilderness failure through covenant instruction, land-facing law, public choice, leadership succession, witness song, blessing, and Moses' death. Its particular movement is this: The song tells hearers to ask elders about the nations' allotment, names Jacob as the LORD's portion, pictures finding and guarding Israel in the wilderness, and gives high places, crops, livestock, fat, and wine. At 32:14, the verse fills the provision portrait with dairy, livestock, grain, and wine.
What Remains True
Because Deuteronomy 32:14 fills the provision portrait with dairy, livestock, grain, and wine, its proportionate enduring truth is this: Poetry can hold memory, accusation, judgment, mercy, mortality, and hope together without converting every image into literal prediction. This unit also keeps the following boundary explicit: The poem's allotment imagery does not authorize modern borders or divine-national hierarchies, and Deuteronomy 32:8's textual witnesses must remain visible.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Deuteronomy 32:7–14 — Ancient Days, Allotment, Wilderness Care, and AbundanceSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Deuteronomy 32:7–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Deuteronomy
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, speech and legal clauses, poetic lines, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Deut.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 32:7–14
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Deuteronomy with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2026-08-12
Supports: Unit-bounded translation, syntax, lexical, legal, poetic, measure, name, and selected textual notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Deuteronomy PDF, complete PDF pp. 1–111, translation and translator notes attached to 32:7–14
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