Deuteronomy 28:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory but you shall not anoint yourselves with the oil, for your olive trees shall drop their 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.

Common English Bible

You might have many olive trees throughout your territories, but you won’t cover yourself with their oil because your olive trees will fail.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy borders, and shalt not be anointed with the oil: for the olives shall fall off and perish.

Deuteronomy 28:40 Cross References

Psalm 104:15

and wine to gladden the human heart, oil to make the face shine and bread to strengthen the human heart.

Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Jeremiah 11:16

The Lord once called you, “A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit,” but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.

Micah 6:15

You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.