A moment in scripture
Deuteronomy 4:22
But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.
The surrounding passage
- Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- Deuteronomy 4:21
Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
- Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.