Deuteronomy 32:52
Good News Translation
You will look at the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land that I am giving the people of Israel."

New Revised Standard Version
Although you may view the land from a distance, you shall not enter it—the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

Contemporary English Version
So I will give the land to the people of Israel, but you will only get to see it from a distance.

New American Bible
You may indeed see the land from a distance, but you shall not enter that land which I am giving to the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.

Deuteronomy 32:49 Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.

Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad as far as Dan. . . .

Numbers 27:12 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.

Hebrews 11:13,39 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

Context
Moses' Death Foretold
51Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction, in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel. 52Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.
Cross References
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 34:1
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad as far as Dan.

Deuteronomy 32:51
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