Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- NKJV Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift your eyes toward the west, the north, the south, and the east; behold it with your eyes, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
- NASB Go up to the top of Pisgah and raise your eyes to the west, the north, the south, and the east, and see it with your eyes; for you shall not cross over this Jordan.
- NLT But go up to Pisgah Peak, and look over the land in every direction. Take a good look, but you may not cross the Jordan River.
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Quick answer
Moses was permitted to view the land from Pisgah but not to cross the Jordan. It tempers the denial with a gracious sight of the promise.
Overview
Though barred from entering, Moses is granted a panoramic view of the land from the mountain. This mingling of discipline and mercy lets him see the fulfillment of God's promise even as he submits to God's verdict. It pictures faith that beholds the promise from afar, a posture Hebrews commends in the saints.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Num 27:12Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
- Deut 34:1–4Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
- Gen 13:14–15Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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