Deuteronomy 10:11

Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God speaks to Moses immediately after granting a forty-day intercession that stayed judgment on Israel. The command follows the renewal of the covenant tablets and precedes Moses’ exhortation to covenant faithfulness.

The words — ק֛וּם (qum) and לֵ֥ךְ (lekh) command Moses to arise and go, directing him to lead the people forward into the promised inheritance.

The thread — This dispatch echoes God’s earlier instructions to Moses in Exodus 33:1 and Exodus 32:34 to leave Sinai and guide the nation toward the sworn land.

Why it lands — It requires the reader to recognize that divine promise advances only through obedient movement, not passive waiting. The text demands immediate compliance with God’s directive to lead others into what He has pledged.

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The Hebrew words

וַיֹּ֤אמֶרva/i.Yo.merand/ he said יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahweh אֵלַ֔י'e.La/ito/ me ק֛וּםkumarise לֵ֥ךְlekhgo לְמַסַּ֖עle./ma.Sa'to/ journeying לִפְנֵ֣יli/f.Nei<to>/ before הָעָ֑םha./'Amthe/ people וְיָבֹ֙אוּ֙ve./ya.Vo.'uso/ they may go וְיִֽרְשׁ֣וּve./yir.Shuand/ they may take possession of אֶת־'et-<obj.>הָאָ֔רֶץha./'A.retzthe/ land אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-which נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתִּיnish.Ba'.tiI swore לַאֲבֹתָ֖םla./'a.vo.Ta/mto/ ancestors/ their לָתֵ֥תla./Tetto/ giveלָהֶֽם׃ פla./Hemto <the>/ them

King James Version

And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.

Cross-references

Exodus 33:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
Exodus 32:34 Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”