Your basket: this was a utensil for storing grain at home (see “basket” in 26.4).

Your kneading-trough: a wide, shallow bowl in which the housewife mixed the flour and other ingredients to make bread (see Exo 12.34).

Both objects in this verse are ways of referring to their contents: grain and bread, with bread representing food in general.

An alternative translation model for this verse is:

• The LORD will cause you to have abundant grain and much food to eat.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .