Deuteronomy 3:25

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“Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!””

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BSBPD

“Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Let me pass over, I pray Thee, and see the good land which <FI>is<Fi> beyond the Jordan, this good hill-country, and Lebanon.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 3:25 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  2. Numbers 32:5“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:21The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  4. Deuteronomy 11:11But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
  5. Ezekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

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