Deuteronomy 31:2
1 When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel,
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.’
3 The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
4 And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.’
- KJV
- And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
- WEB
- He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
- ASV
- And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
- DARBY
- and he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day, I can no more go out and come in; and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
- BLB
- and he said to them, “I [am] a son of a hundred and twenty years today; I cannot anymore go out and come in, and YHWH has said to me, ‘You shall not pass over this Jordan.’
- ÅB
- han sa til dem: Jeg er idag hundre og tyve år gammel, jeg kan ikke mere gå ut og inn som før, og Herren har sagt til meg: Du skal ikke komme over Jordan her.
- OTB
- Han sa til dem: «Jeg er nå hundre og tjue år gammel; jeg er ikke lenger i stand til å lede dere, og Herren har sagt til meg: ‘Du skal ikke krysse Jordan.’
- B1930
- han sa til dem: Jeg er idag hundre og tyve år gammel, jeg kan ikke mere gå ut og inn som før, og Herren har sagt til mig: Du skal ikke komme over Jordan her.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
Read in contextNumbers 27:17
who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”
Read in context1 Kings 3:7
And now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. But I am only a little child, not knowing how to go out or come in.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 3:26–27
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.
Read in contextExodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Read in contextNumbers 20:12
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
Read in context2 Samuel 21:17
But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:48–52
On that same day the LORD said to Moses,
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