Deuteronomy 28:5

King James Version

Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Update Bible Version
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

English Revised Version
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough.

New Century Version
Your basket and your kitchen will be blessed.

New English Translation
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.

World English Bible
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

Amplified Bible
"Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
blessid schulen be thi bernes, and `blessid schulen be `thi relifs;

Young's Literal Translation
`Blessed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Berean Standard Bible
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

Contemporary English Version
You will have plenty of bread to eat.

American Standard Version
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Bible in Basic English
A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed shalbe thy basket & thy store.

Complete Jewish Bible
"A blessing on your grain-basket and kneading-bowl.

Darby Translation
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Easy-to-Read Version
He will bless your baskets and pans and fill them with food.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

King James Version (1611)
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

New Life Bible
Good will come to your basket and your bread pan.

New Revised Standard
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blessed, shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed shalbe thy basket and thy dough.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed shall be your breadbasket and your dough.

Good News Translation
"The Lord will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.

Revised Standard Version
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Blessed shall be thy barns, and thy stores.

Christian Standard Bible®
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.

Lexham English Bible
"Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.

Literal Translation
Your basket and your kneadingtrough shall be blessed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed shal be yi baßkett, & thy stoare.

New American Standard Bible
"Blessed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New King James Version
"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

New Living Translation
Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Contextual Overview

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: ² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. ⁷ The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ⁹ The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord ; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy basket: By basket, may be understood the olive-gathering and vintage, in which it was employed; and by the store or remainder, all laid up for future use, or prepared for present consumption.

store: or, dough, or kneading troughs, Deuteronomy 28:5

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:25 - he shall Deuteronomy 28:17 - General Deuteronomy 28:45 - Moreover

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed [shall be] thy basket,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem restrain to the basket of firstfruits, and the cake of the first of their dough; but it intends any and every vessel in which they put their provisions for present use, and that that should never be empty of them, and that they should always have a sufficiency:

and thy store; what remained, and was laid up in their barns, cellars, and storehouses, for future use, or in proper places for seed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language rises in this chapter to the sublimest strains, especially in the latter part of it; and the prophecies respecting the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation in its later days are among the most remarkable in scripture. They are plain, precise, and circumstantial; and the fulfillment of them has been literal, complete, and undeniable.

The Blessing. The six repetitions of the word “blessed” introduce the particular forms which the blessing would take in the various relations of life.

Deuteronomy 28:5

The “basket” or bag was a customary means in the East for carrying about whatever might be needed for personal uses (compare Deuteronomy 26:2; John 13:29).

The “store” is rather the kneading-trough Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. The blessings here promised relate, it will be observed, to private and personal life: in Deuteronomy 28:7 those which are of a more public and national character are brought forward.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The oath with which God vouchsafed to confirm His promises to the patriarchs (compare Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13-14) contained by implication these gifts of holiness and eminence to Israel (compare the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 28:5. Thy basket — Thy olive gathering and vintage, as the basket was employed to collect those fruits.

Store. — משארת mishereth, kneading-trough, or remainder; all that is laid up for future use, as well as what is prepared for present consumption. Some think that by basket all their property abroad may be meant, and by store all that they have at home, i. e., all that is in the fields, and all that is in the houses. The following note of Mr. Harmer is important: -

"Commentators seem to be at a great loss how to explain the basket and the store mentioned Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:17. Why Moses, who in the other verses mentions things in general, should in this case be so minute as to mention baskets, seems strange; and they that interpret either the first or the second of these words of the repositories of their corn, c., forget that their barns or storehouses are spoken of presently after this in Deuteronomy 28:8. Might I be permitted to give my opinion here, I should say that the basket, טנא tene, in this place means their travelling baskets, and the other word משארת mishereth, (their store,) signifies their leathern bags, in both which they were wont to carry things in travelling. The first of these words occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures but in the account that is given us of the conveyance in which they were to carry their first-fruits to Jerusalem the other nowhere but in the description of the hurrying journey of Israel out of Egypt, where it means the utensils in which they then carried their dough, which I have shown elsewhere in these papers means a piece of leather drawn together by rings, and forming a kind of bag. Agreeably to this, Hasselquist informs us that the Eastern people use baskets in travelling; for, speaking of that species of the palm tree which produces dates, and its great usefulness to the people of those countries, he tells us that of the leaves of this tree they make baskets, or rather a kind of short bags, which are used in Turkey on journeys and in their houses; pages 261, 262. Hampers and panniers are English terms denoting travelling baskets, as tene seems to be a Hebrew word of the same general import, though their forms might very much differ, as it is certain that of the travelling baskets mentioned by Hasselquist now does.

"In like manner as they now carry meal, figs, and raisins, in a goat's skin in Barbary for a viaticum, they might do the same anciently, and consequently might carry merchandise after the same manner, particularly their honey, oil, and balm, mentioned Ezekiel 27:17. They were the proper vessels for such things. So Sir J. Chardin, who was so long in the East, and observed their customs with so much care, supposed, in a manuscript note on Genesis 43:11, that the balm and the honey sent by Jacob into Egypt for a present were carried in a goat or kid's skin, in which all sorts of things, both dry and liquid, are wont to be carried in the East.

"Understood after this manner, the passage promises Israel success in their commerce, as the next verse (the Deuteronomy 28:6; Deuteronomy 28:6) promises them personal safety in their going out and in their return. In this view the passage appears with due distinctness, and a noble extent." - Observations, vol. 2:, p. 181.