Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

New American Standard Bible

Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;

King James Version

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

Holman Bible

May God give to you—
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land
an abundance of grain and new wine.

International Standard Version

May the LORD grant you dew from the skies, and from the fertile land; may he grant you abundant grain and fresh wine.

A Conservative Version

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

American Standard Version

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine.

Amplified


Now may God give you of the dew of heaven [to water your land],
And of the fatness (fertility) of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;

Darby Translation

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine.

Julia Smith Translation

And God will give to thee from the dew of the heavens, and from the fatness of the earth, and a multiude of corn and new wine.

King James 2000

Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:

Lexham Expanded Bible

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.

Modern King James verseion

And may God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine.

NET Bible

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

New Heart English Bible

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

The Emphasized Bible

Then, may God give thee of the dew of the heavens, And of the fatness of the earth, - And abundance of corn and new wine:

Webster

Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

World English Bible

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Youngs Literal Translation

and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

thee of the dew
טל 
Tal 
dew
Usage: 31

of heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and the fatness
משׁמן 
Mashman 
Usage: 7

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of corn
דּגן 
Dagan 
Usage: 40

References

American

Dew

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Dew

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Jacob Steals Esau's Blessing

27 And he came near and gave him a kiss; and smelling the smell of his clothing, he gave him a blessing, and said, See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field on which the blessing of the Lord has come: 28 May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure: 29 Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 33:28

And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.

Deuteronomy 33:13

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

Genesis 27:39

Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:

Deuteronomy 7:13

And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

Genesis 45:18

And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

Joel 2:19

And the Lord made answer and said to his people, See, I will send you grain and wine and oil in full measure: and I will no longer let you be shamed among the nations:

Genesis 49:20

Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.

Numbers 13:20

And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.

Deuteronomy 8:7-9

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

Deuteronomy 11:11-12

But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

Joshua 5:6

For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Kings 5:11

And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of grain, as food for his people, and twenty measures of clear oil; this he did every year.

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

2 Chronicles 2:10

And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

Psalm 36:8

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 65:9-13

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

Psalm 104:15

And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Isaiah 45:8

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

Hosea 14:5-7

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

Micah 5:7

And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.

Zechariah 8:12

For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

Zechariah 9:17

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.

Romans 11:17

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

Hebrews 11:20

By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.

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