Deuteronomy 31:1-8
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31 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2 And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today;[a] I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, ‘You may not cross this Jordan.’ 3 Yahweh your God is about to cross before you;[b] he will destroy these nations before you,[c] and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing before you,[d] just as Yahweh promised.[e] 4 And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them. 5 And Yahweh will deliver them to you before you,[f] and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you should not be in dread from their presence,[g] for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you.”
7 Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel,[h] “Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors[i] to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. 8 Yahweh is the one going before you;[j] he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.”
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- Deuteronomy 31:2 Literally “the day”
- Deuteronomy 31:3 Literally “to the face of you”
- Deuteronomy 31:3 Literally “to the face of you”
- Deuteronomy 31:3 Literally “to the face of you”
- Deuteronomy 31:3 Literally “spoke”
- Deuteronomy 31:5 Literally “will give them Yahweh to the face of you”
- Deuteronomy 31:6 Literally “not you should dread from their face”
- Deuteronomy 31:7 Literally “before the eyes of all Israel”
- Deuteronomy 31:7 Or “their fathers”
- Deuteronomy 31:8 Literally “to the face of you”
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