Numbers 27:12
New International Version
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.

New Living Translation
One day the LORD said to Moses, “Climb one of the mountains east of the river, and look out over the land I have given the people of Israel.

English Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

King James Bible
And 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.

New King James Version
Now the LORD said to Moses: “Go up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.

NASB 1995
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.

NASB 1977
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel.

Amplified Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up to this mountain (Nebo) [in the] Abarim [range] and look at the land I have given to the sons of Israel.

Christian Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH said to Moshe: “Go up to this mountain of the Hebrews and see the land of Canaan that I give to the children of Israel.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the Lord said to Moses, Go up to the mountain that is in the country beyond Jordan, this mount Nabau, and behold the land Chanaan, which I give to the sons of Israel for a possession.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said to Moses, "One day you will go up into the Abarim Mountains, and from there you will see the land I am giving the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord also said to Moses: Go up into this mountain Abarim, and view from thence the land which I will give to the children of Israel.

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into the Abarim Mountains, and take a look at the land I will give the Israelites.

Good News Translation
The LORD said to Moses, "Go up the Abarim Mountains and look out over the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

International Standard Version
Then the LORD told Moses, "You are to climb these Abarim mountains and look over the land that I'm going to give the Israelis.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

Literal Standard Version
And YHWH says to Moses, “Go up to this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel;

Majority Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.

New American Bible
The LORD said to Moses: Go up into this mountain of the Abarim range and view the land that I have given to the Israelites.

NET Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land that I have given to the Israelites.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Moses, Ascend this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Go up unto this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the sons of Israel;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Moses Requests a Successor
12Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites. 13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;…

Cross References
Numbers 33:47
They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.

Numbers 33:48
They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Deuteronomy 3:23
At that time I also pleaded with the LORD:

Deuteronomy 3:27
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.

Deuteronomy 31:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

Deuteronomy 32:48
On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

Deuteronomy 32:49
"Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.


Treasury of Scripture

And the LORD said to Moses, Get you up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

thou also

Numbers 31:2
Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Genesis 25:8,17
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people…

as Aaron

Numbers 20:24-28
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah…

Numbers 33:38
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

Deuteronomy 10:6
And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

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1. The daughters of Zelophehad ask for an inheritance
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18. Joshua is appointed to succeed him














(12) Get thee up into this mount Abarim.--The position of this command, in immediate connection with the answer returned to the request of the daughters of Zelophehad, is very remarkable. They were to enter into the land of promise, and their descendants were to inherit it. The great lawgiver himself was to be excluded on account of his transgression. He does not, however, shrink from recording the sentence of exclusion in immediate connection with an incident which brings out that exclusion into greater prominence. The fulfilment of the announcement made to Moses is related in Deuteronomy 32:48-52. The mountains of Abarim form the Moabitish table-land, the northern portion of which bore the name of Pisgah. It is here that we must look for Mount Nebo, which is sometimes described as one of the mountains of Abarim (Deuteronomy 32:49), and at other times as the top of Pisgah (Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 34:1).

And see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.--"The law," says Bishop Wordsworth, "led men to 'see the promises afar off, and to embrace them' [rather, to see and greet the promises from afar, Hebrews 11:13], and it brought them to the borders of Canaan, but could not bring them into it: that was reserved for Joshua, the type of Jesus." It must not be overlooked, however, that, although he was shut out during his lifetime from entering into the land of Canaan, Moses was permitted to stand with Elijah upon the Mount of Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3). . . .

Verse 12. - And the Lord said unto Moses. It is impossible to determine the exact place of this announcement in the order of events narrated. It would appear from Numbers 31:1 that the war with the Midianites occurred later, and certainly the address to the people and to Joshua in Deuteronomy 31:1-8 presupposes the formal appointment here recorded; but the chronologer of the concluding chapters of Numbers is evidently very uncertain; they may, or may not, be arranged in order of time. We may with good reason suppose that the summons to die was only separated from its fulfillment by the brief interval necessary to complete what work was yet unfinished (such as the punishment of the Midianites and the provisional settlement of the trans-Jordanic country) before the river was crossed. Into this Mount Abarim. See on Numbers 33:47; Deuteronomy 32:49 sq., where this command is recited more in detail. Abarim was apparently the range behind the Arboth Moab, the northern portion of which opposite to Jericho was called Pisgah (Numbers 21:20; Deuteronomy 3:27), and the highest point Nebo (Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1), after the name of a neighbouring town (Numbers 33:47). And see the land. Moses had already been told that he should not enter the promised land (Numbers 20:12), yet he is allowed the consolation of seeing it with his eyes before his death. It would seem from Deuteronomy 3:25-27 that this favour was accorded him in answer to his prayer.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then the LORD
יְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

said
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Moses,
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

“Go up
עֲלֵ֛ה (‘ă·lêh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

this
הַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

mountain
הַ֥ר (har)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

of the Abarim range
הָעֲבָרִ֖ים (hā·‘ă·ḇā·rîm)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5682: Abarim -- 'regions beyond', a mountainous region North of the Dead Sea

and see
וּרְאֵה֙ (ū·rə·’êh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the land
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I have given
נָתַ֖תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

the Israelites.
לִבְנֵ֥י (liḇ·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son


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