Deuteronomy 33:24
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Deuteronomy 33:24 is part of Moses' prophetic blessing upon the tribes of Israel. It stands in one of the two marvelous songs of Moses concerning Israel that close Deuteronomy. More fully, it belongs to one of two beautiful poems closing Deuteronomy, paired with the poem in chapter 32 and standing just before the record of the death of Moses in chapter 34.
As part of Moses' song of tribal prophecies, it preserved blessed truths about God that were taught to Israel to sing through later generations, recalling God's mercy and goodness. The chapter of Moses' blessings on the tribes is to be compared with Jacob's dying prophecy and its account of Asher. As part of Moses' farewell blessings on the twelve tribes portraying the fruits of character foreshown in each tribe, the blessing depicts the outcome of Asher's character.
In prophecy Asher is honored: his tribe is settled along the coast and blessed with abundant agricultural produce and mineral wealth. The word for dip is the Hebrew tah-val, rendered in Greek as bapsei from the same root as baptizo. It means to dip or immerse and does not contain the idea of sprinkling, with bapto and baptizo sharing the idea of plunging or immersing while baptizo means immerse only.