Deuteronomy 31:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.’”
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“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.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and he saith unto them, `A son of a hundred and twenty years <FI>am<Fi> I to-day; I am not able any more to go out and to come in, and Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou dost not pass over this Jordan,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 31:2 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 7:7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
- Numbers 20:12But 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.”
- Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
- Numbers 27:17who 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.”
- Deuteronomy 1:37The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
- Deuteronomy 3:26But 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.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:48On that same day the LORD said to Moses,
- Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
- Joshua 14:10Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,
- Joshua 14:11still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
- 2 Samuel 21:17But 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.”
- 1 Kings 3:7And 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.
- Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- Acts 7:23When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- Acts 20:25Now I know that none of you among whom I have preached the kingdom will see my face again.
- 2 Peter 1:13I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,
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