Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
- BSB The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
- NKJV The Lord was also angry with me for your sakes, saying, ‘Even you shall not go in there.
- NASB The Lord was angry with me also on your account, saying, ‘Not even you shall enter there.
- NLT “And the Lord was also angry with me because of you. He said to me, ‘Moses, not even you will enter the Promised Land!
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Quick answer
Moses says God was angry with him also on the people's account, barring him from the land. Even Moses would not lead Israel into Canaan.
Overview
Moses attributes his own exclusion to God's anger 'for your sakes,' connecting it to the people's provocation, though Numbers 20 locates his specific failure at Meribah. That even the great mediator could not enter the land underscores the limits of the old covenant leadership. It points beyond Moses to a greater Mediator, Christ, who alone leads His people into the true and lasting inheritance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 4:21Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
- Num 20:12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
- Deut 34:4And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
- Ps 106:32–33They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
- Num 27:13–14And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
- Deut 3:23–26And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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