KJV King James Version
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Deuteronomy 3:25
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
WEB World English Bible
Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.”
ASV American Standard Version
Let me go over, I pray thee, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Let me pass over, I pray Thee, and see the good land which is beyond the Jordan, this good hill-country, and Lebanon.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 3
22 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
23 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God [is there] in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that [is] beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.
27 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.
28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֶעְבְּרָה־H5674 · a.varto passנָּ֗אH4994 · napleaseוְאֶרְאֶה֙H7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָאָ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetהַטּוֹבָ֔הH2896 · tovpleasantאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichבְּעֵ֣בֶרH5676 · e.verside: besideהַיַּרְדֵּ֑ןH3383 · yar.denJordanהָהָ֥רH2022 · harmountain: mountהַטּ֛וֹבH2896 · tovpleasantהַזֶּ֖הH2088 · zehthisוְהַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃H3844 · le.va.nonLebanon
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 4:21-22Furthermore 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:Deuteronomy 11:11-12But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven:Exodus 3:8And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.Ezekiel 20:6In the day [that] I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands:Numbers 32:5Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us not over Jordan.
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