KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Deuteronomy 3:27
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with thine eyes—for thou dost not pass over this Jordan;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 3
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.
29 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
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עֲלֵ֣ה׀H5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseרֹ֣אשׁH7218 · roshheadהַפִּסְגָּ֗הH6449 · pis.gahPisgahוְשָׂ֥אH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseעֵינֶ֛יךָH5869 · a.yineyeיָ֧מָּהH3220 · yamseaוְצָפֹ֛נָהH6828 · tsa.phonnorthוְתֵימָ֥נָהH8486 · te.mansouthוּמִזְרָ֖חָהH4217 · miz.rachEast (Gate)וּרְאֵ֣הH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeבְעֵינֶ֑יךָH5869 · a.yineyeכִּי־H3588 · kiforלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotתַעֲבֹ֖רH5674 · a.varto passאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיַּרְדֵּ֥ןH3383 · yar.denJordanהַזֶּֽה׃H2088 · zehthis
Cross-references
Numbers 27:12And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.Deuteronomy 34:1-4And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that [is] over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,Genesis 13:14-15And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
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