Albert Barnes Commentary Deuteronomy 7:13

"and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee." — Deuteronomy 7:13 (ASV)

Flocks of thy sheep - Render it instead: “the ewes of your sheep.” The phrase is unique to Deuteronomy. The Hebrew word for “ewes” is the plural form of Ashtoreth, the well-known name of the goddess of the Zidonians (1 Kings 11:5). This goddess, called by the Classical writers “Astarte,” and identified with “Venus,” represented the fruitfulness of nature.