Deuteronomy 31:2
Good News Translation
and said, "I am now a hundred and twenty years old and am no longer able to be your leader. And besides this, the LORD has told me that I will not cross the Jordan.

New Revised Standard Version
he said to them: “I am now one hundred twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, and the LORD has told me, ‘You shall not cross over this Jordan.’

Contemporary English Version
I am 120 years old, and I am no longer able to be your leader. And besides that, the LORD your God has told me that he won't let me cross the Jordan River.

New American Bible
he said to them, I am now one hundred and twenty years old and am no longer able to go out and come in; besides, the LORD has said to me, Do not cross this Jordan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.

Acts 7:20,23 At the same time was Moses born: and he was acceptable to God. Who was nourished three months in his father's house. . . .

Acts 7:29,30 And Moses fled upon this word: and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begot two sons. . . .

120 years

Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Joshua 14:10,11 The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until this present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I am eighty-five years old, . . .

Psalm 90:10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.

I can no more

Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.

Numbers 27:17 And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

2 Samuel 21:17 And Abisai the son of Sarvia rescued him, and striking the Philistine killed him. Then David's men swore unto him saying: Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, lest thou put out the lamp of Israel.

1 Kings 3:7 And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and come in;

Thou shalt not

Deuteronomy 3:26,27 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 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 32:48-52 And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying: . . .

Numbers 20:12 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed me, to sanctify me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these people into the land, which I will give them.

Numbers 27:13,14 And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone: . . .

Acts 20:25 And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

2 Peter 1:13,14 But I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. . . .

Context
Moses Encourages the People
1And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel, 2And he said to them: I am this day a hundred and twenty years old, I can no longer go out and come in, especially as the Lord also hath said to me: Thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.3The Lord thy God then will pass over before thee: he will destroy all these nations in thy sight, and thou shalt possess them: and this Josue shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.…
Cross References
Exodus 7:7
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Numbers 27:17
And may go out and in before them, and may lead them out, or bring them in: lest the people of the Lord be as sheep without a shepherd.

Deuteronomy 1:37
Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither.

Deuteronomy 3:27
Go up to the top of Phasga, and cast thy eyes round about to the west, and to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and behold it, for thou shalt not pass this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 31:1
And Moses went, and spoke all these words to all Israel,

Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.

Joshua 14:11
As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to march.

1 Kings 3:7
And now, O Lord God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David, my father: and I am but a child, and know not how to go out and come in;

Deuteronomy 31:1
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