Deuteronomy 3:25
Good News Translation
Let me cross the Jordan River, LORD, and see the fertile land on the other side, the beautiful hill country and the Lebanon Mountains.'

New Revised Standard Version
Let me cross over to see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and the Lebanon.”

Contemporary English Version
The land west of the Jordan is such good land. Please let me cross the Jordan and see the hills and the Lebanon Mountains."

New American Bible
Ah, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that fine hill country, and the Lebanon!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.

the good land

Deuteronomy 4:21,22 And the Lord was angry with me for your words, and he swore that I should not pass over the Jordan, nor enter into the excellent land, which he will give you. . . .

Deuteronomy 11:11,12 But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven. . . .

Exodus 3:8 And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Numbers 32:5 And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.

Ezekiel 20:6 In that day I lifted up my hand for them to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land which I had provided for them, flowing with milk and honey, which excelled amongst all lands.

Context
Moses Forbidden to Cross the Jordan
24Lord God, thou hast begun to shew unto thy servant thy greatness, and most mighty hand, for there is no other God either in heaven or earth, that is able to do thy works, or to be compared to thy strength. 25I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus.26And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:22
Behold I die in this land, I shall not pass over the Jordan: you shall pass, and possess the goodly land.

Deuteronomy 3:26
And the Lord was angry with me on your account and heard me not, but said to me: It is enough: speak no more to me of this matter.

Deuteronomy 3:24
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