The Lord replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you.”
Parallel translations
- WEB He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- KJV And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
- BSB And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- NKJV And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- NASB And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”
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Quick answer
God answers, 'My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.' The promise of God's own presence is the heart of the assurance Moses sought.
Overview
God grants the very thing in question: His personal presence will accompany Israel. The promise of 'rest' anticipates the settled life in the land and, more deeply, the rest found in God Himself. This points forward to Christ, who offers rest to all who come to Him (Matthew 11:28) and to the eternal Sabbath rest (Hebrews 4).
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Cross-references · 12
- Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Josh 1:5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
- Josh 21:44Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Heb 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
- Josh 22:4Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Exod 13:21Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
- Josh 23:1After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
- Deut 3:20until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”
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