Fortieth year since Egypt. We’re camped on the plains of Moab with the Jordan in front of us. Before anyone crosses that river, I’ve got some things to say. It’ll take a while.
DEUTERONOMY 1:1–3 · BSB
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir. In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
It’s an eleven-day walk from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea. It took us forty years.
DEUTERONOMY 1:2–3 · BSB
It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir. In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Remember Kadesh? You sat grumbling in your tents, saying the LORD hates us, and the walls go up to the sky.
DEUTERONOMY 1:27–28 · BSB
You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated. Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
I was one of the scouts that day. Of that whole generation, only Caleb and I will go in. The LORD said so then, and you’ve just said it again.
DEUTERONOMY 1:35–38 · BSB
“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.” The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land. Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
Then you marched up without him, and the Amorites chased you like a swarm of bees.
DEUTERONOMY 1:43–44 · BSB
So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country. Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
Kadesh to the Zered stream took thirty-eight years. Long enough for that whole generation of fighting men to die.
DEUTERONOMY 2:14 · BSB
The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Og, king of Bashan, was the last of the giants. His bed was iron and about four metres long.
DEUTERONOMY 3:11 · BSB
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
I begged him to let me cross and see it. He told me that was enough, and not to bring it up again.
DEUTERONOMY 3:25–26 · BSB
Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!” But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.
Don’t forget what you saw with your own eyes. Tell your kids. Tell your grandkids.
DEUTERONOMY 4:9 · BSB
Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
The Ten Commandments again, for everyone who was a kid at the mountain:
1. No other gods.
2. No idols.
3. Don’t misuse his name.
4. Keep the Sabbath.
5. Honour your father and mother.
6. Don’t murder.
7. Don’t commit adultery.
8. Don’t steal.
9. Don’t lie about anyone.
10. Don’t want what’s someone else’s.
DEUTERONOMY 5:6–21 · BSB
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain. Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
We remember the voice coming out of the fire. We told Moses: you go near and listen, then tell us. We’ll do it.
DEUTERONOMY 5:24–27 · BSB
and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him. But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer. For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived? Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
The LORD heard you. He said you were right. And he said he wished you’d always have a heart like that.
DEUTERONOMY 5:28–29 · BSB
And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
Listen, Israel: the LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.
DEUTERONOMY 6:4–5 · BSB
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Talk about it at home and on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write it on your doorposts.
DEUTERONOMY 6:7–9 · BSB
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
Towns you didn’t build. Wells you didn’t dig. Vineyards you didn’t plant. And when you’re full, that’s when you forget him.
DEUTERONOMY 6:10–12 · BSB
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Moses says one day our kids will ask what all these rules are for. And we tell them: we were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out.
DEUTERONOMY 6:20–21 · BSB
In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
He didn’t choose you because there were loads of you. You were the smallest nation there was. He chose you because he loved you.
DEUTERONOMY 7:7–8 · BSB
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
People don’t live on bread alone. They live on every word that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
DEUTERONOMY 8:3 · BSB
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
Watch out for this sentence: “I made all this myself.” It’s the LORD who gives you the strength to do it.
DEUTERONOMY 8:17–18 · BSB
You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.” But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.
It isn’t because you’re good. You’re a stubborn people. Just so we’re clear.
DEUTERONOMY 9:6 · BSB
Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Forty days on the mountain, no food, no water. Two stone tablets, written by the finger of God. I came down and there was a metal calf. I smashed the tablets in front of you.
DEUTERONOMY 9:9–17 · BSB
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water. Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly. And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.” The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.” So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands. And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
Then another forty days face down before the LORD, praying for you. And for Aaron.
DEUTERONOMY 9:18–20 · BSB
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well. The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
So what does the LORD your God actually ask of you? To be in awe of him, live his way, love him, and serve him with all your heart and soul.
DEUTERONOMY 10:12 · BSB
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
He loves the foreigner and gives him food and clothes. So love the foreigner. You were foreigners in Egypt.
DEUTERONOMY 10:18–19 · BSB
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Over there you won’t water your fields by foot like in Egypt. The land drinks the rain from the sky, and the LORD watches over it all year.
DEUTERONOMY 11:10–12 · BSB
For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden. But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
Tithe too far to carry? Sell it, take the money, and when you get there spend it on whatever you like. Beef, lamb, wine. Then feast with your family in front of the LORD.
DEUTERONOMY 14:24–26 · BSB
But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away, then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
Don’t check how close the year of cancelled debts is before you lend to someone poor.
DEUTERONOMY 15:9 · BSB
Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
There will always be poor people in the land. So open your hand wide.
DEUTERONOMY 15:11 · BSB
For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
Rules for a future king:
1. Not too many horses.
2. Not too many wives.
3. Not too much silver and gold.
4. Write out his own copy of this law, and read it every day.
DEUTERONOMY 17:16–19 · BSB
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’ He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold. When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
What counts as an accident: you’re chopping wood, the axe head flies off the handle and kills your friend.
DEUTERONOMY 19:5 · BSB
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
Before a battle, the officers ask:
1. Built a house and not moved in? Go home.
2. Planted a vineyard and not eaten from it? Go home.
3. Engaged and not married? Go home.
4. Scared? Go home, before you scare everyone else.
DEUTERONOMY 20:5–8 · BSB
Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it. Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit. Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.” Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
In a siege, leave the fruit trees alone. Are the trees your enemy?
DEUTERONOMY 20:19 · BSB
When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
Found a bird’s nest? Take the eggs. Let the mother go.
DEUTERONOMY 22:6–7 · BSB
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Just married? No war for a year. Stay home and make your wife happy.
DEUTERONOMY 24:5 · BSB
If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
Pay a poor worker before the sun goes down. He’s counting on it.
DEUTERONOMY 24:15 · BSB
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Forgot a sheaf out in the field? Leave it. It’s for the foreigner, the orphan and the widow.
DEUTERONOMY 24:19 · BSB
If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Won’t marry your dead brother’s widow to carry on his name? She pulls off your sandal in front of the elders and spits in your face, and your family is known as the house of the man with no sandal.
DEUTERONOMY 25:7–10 · BSB
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.” Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,” his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.” And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
What we say every time we bring the first of the harvest: “My father was a wandering Aramean.” Then the whole story, right down to the LORD bringing us here. Every year.
DEUTERONOMY 26:5–9 · BSB
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor. So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression. Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders. And He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Over there, the Levites will call these out, and everyone answers:
A curse on anyone who moves their neighbour’s boundary stone.
A curse on anyone who sends a blind man the wrong way.
A curse on anyone who cheats the foreigner, the orphan or the widow out of justice.
DEUTERONOMY 27:17–19 · BSB
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Listen to the LORD, and good things will chase you down. In town and in the country. Coming in and going out. He’ll bless all of it.
DEUTERONOMY 28:3–6 · BSB
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
And if you won’t listen, the curses come after you instead. Scattered to the ends of the earth, scared day and night. You’ll wake up wishing it was evening, and in the evening you’ll wish it was morning.
DEUTERONOMY 28:15; DEUTERONOMY 28:64–67 · BSB
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul. So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival. In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
This agreement isn’t only with you standing here today. It’s with those who aren’t here today as well.
DEUTERONOMY 29:14–15 · BSB
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you, but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.
Some things only the LORD our God knows, and those are his. What he’s shown us is ours, and our kids’, for good.
DEUTERONOMY 29:29 · BSB
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
It isn’t too hard for you, and it isn’t out of reach. It’s not up in the sky or across the sea. It’s right here. In your mouth and in your heart.
DEUTERONOMY 30:11–14 · BSB
For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’ But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
I’ve set life and death in front of you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you and your children can live.
DEUTERONOMY 30:19 · BSB
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
I’m a hundred and twenty. I can’t get around like I used to. And the LORD has told me I’m not crossing the Jordan.
DEUTERONOMY 31:2 · BSB
he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
Be strong and brave. Don’t be afraid. The LORD your God goes with you. He will never leave you or abandon you.
DEUTERONOMY 31:6 · BSB
Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
Every seven years, the whole law gets read out loud to everyone. Men, women, kids, foreigners. Everyone.
DEUTERONOMY 31:10–12 · BSB
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel. Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.
The LORD told me: after I’m gone, they’ll turn to other gods. So he gave me a song to teach them, for when that day comes.
DEUTERONOMY 31:16; DEUTERONOMY 31:19 · BSB
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them. Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
The LORD says getting even is his job, and he’ll repay. And that he’s the one who wounds and the one who heals.
DEUTERONOMY 32:35; DEUTERONOMY 32:39 · BSB
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.” See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
The LORD says: climb Mount Nebo and look at the land. Then die there, like Aaron did. Because of Meribah. I’ll see it. I won’t go in.
DEUTERONOMY 32:49–52 · BSB
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession. And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people. For at the waters of Meribah-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence. Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”
The eternal God is your home, and his arms are under you. For ever.
DEUTERONOMY 33:27 · BSB
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
Moses climbs Mount Nebo, and the LORD shows him the whole land, north to Dan, west to the sea, south to the Negev. Tells him it’s the land he promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He’s let him see it. He won’t go over.
DEUTERONOMY 34:1–4 · BSB
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan, all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar. And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”
Moses, the LORD’s servant, dies there in Moab, as the LORD said. The LORD buries him himself. Nobody knows where his grave is, to this day.
DEUTERONOMY 34:5–6 · BSB
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said. And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.
