Deuteronomy 3:29
27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
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Compare
- BSB
- So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
- KJV
- So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
- WEB
- So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.
- ASV
- So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
- DARBY
- And we abode in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor.
- BLB
- And we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.
- ÅB
- Så ble vi da i dalen midt imot Bet-Peor.
[^1]: østenfor. - OTB
- Slik ble vi værende i dalen rett overfor Bet-Peor.
- B1930
- Så blev vi da i dalen midt imot Bet-Peor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 4:46
On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 34:6
And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Read in contextNumbers 25:3
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
Read in contextNumbers 33:48–49
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
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