Deuteronomy 28:40
You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with oil, for your olives will drop off prematurely.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
KJV1611 – Modern English
You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou shalt have olive-trees{H2132} throughout all thy borders,{H1366} but thou shalt not anoint{H5480} thyself with the oil;{H8081} for thine olive{H2132} shall cast{H5394} [its fruit].
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Thou shalt have olive trees{H2132} throughout all thy coasts{H1366}, but thou shalt not anoint{H5480}{(H8799)} thyself with the oil{H8081}; for thine olive{H2132} shall cast{H5394}{(H8799)} his fruit.
Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
Thou shalt haue olyue trees in all thy costes, but shalt not be anoynted with the oyle, for thyne olyue trees shalbe rooted out.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt haue Olyue trees in all yi coastes, but shalt not be anoynted with the oyle: for thyne Oliue trees shalbe roted out.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thou shalt haue Oliue trees in all thy coastes, but shalt not anoynt thy selfe with the oyle: for thine oliues shall fall.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Thou shalt haue oliue trees throughout al thy coastes, but shalt not annoynt thy selfe with the oyle, for thine oliues shall fall downe.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint [thyself] with the oil; for thine olive shall cast [his fruit].
Webster's Bible (1833)
You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
olives are to thee in all thy border, and oil thou dost not pour out, for thine olive doth fall off.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast `its fruit'.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast [its fruit] .
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit.
World English Bible (2000)
You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast [its fruit].
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.
Referenced Verses
- Mic 6:15 : 15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Ps 23:5 : 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Ps 104:15 : 15 wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
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14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.
15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not use their oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
- Deut 28:36-394 verses80%
36 The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.
37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.
38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.
39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.
- Deut 28:41-422 verses80%
41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you, because they will go into captivity.
42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.
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20 When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
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51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.
- Deut 28:30-345 verses76%
30 You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.
31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.
32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.
33 A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.
34 You will go mad because of the things you see with your own eyes.
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20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
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32 It will be fulfilled before his time, and his branch will not remain green.
33 He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine and cast away his blossoms like the olive tree.
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8 The trees once went out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
9 But the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop producing my rich oil, by which gods and humans are honored, to go sway over the trees?'
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4 Blessed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, and the offspring of your livestock—including the young of your cattle and the increase of your flocks.
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6 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
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31 And you shall speak to the Israelites, saying, 'This is to be a sacred anointing oil for me throughout your generations.
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13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.
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16 The LORD once called you a thriving olive tree, beautiful with luscious fruit. But with the sound of a great uproar, he has set it on fire, and its branches are broken.
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30 For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden without water.
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14 He will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his officials.
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17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,
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18 Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.
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5 You will plant vineyards again on the hills of Samaria; the planters will plant them and enjoy their fruit.
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9 Do not plant two kinds of seeds in your vineyard, or the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the fruit of the vineyard, will be forfeited.
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3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
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13 So it will be in the midst of the earth among the nations, like the shaking of an olive tree, as gleanings after the grape harvest is over.
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5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing, and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.
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5 You shall not harvest what grows by itself after your harvest, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of complete rest for the land.
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6 Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that is beaten: two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.
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17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, new wine, or oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or any of your vowed offerings, freewill offerings, or special contributions.
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20 You shall command the Israelites to bring you pure, pressed olive oil for the light, to keep the lamp burning continually.
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24 Whatever comes out of your lips, you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
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25 Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the holy anointing oil.
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21 You shall not plant for yourself an Asherah pole of any tree beside the altar of the Lord your God that you will set up for yourself.
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8 A land of wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey.
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30 This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows by itself, and in the second year, what springs from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.