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Deuteronomy 26:1
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab as they prepare to cross the Jordan. He frames the impending settlement as a direct result of divine provision rather than human effort.
The words — The text uses תָב֣וֹא (ta.Vo') for "you will go/enter" and הָ/אָ֔רֶץ (ha./'A.retz) for "the land." These terms establish the physical movement into a specific geographical inheritance.
The thread — This conditional entry formula recurs in Deuteronomy 17:14, Numbers 15:2, and Numbers 15:18. Each reference ties Israel’s obedience to their physical settlement in the promised territory.
Why it lands — The verse demands acknowledgment that possession and settlement follow divine grant. It requires the reader to treat land acquisition as a conditional act of obedience rather than an automatic right.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 17:14 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
- Numbers 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
- Numbers 15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
- Deuteronomy 5:31 But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
- Deuteronomy 6:1 These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
- Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Deuteronomy 13:1 If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
- Deuteronomy 13:9 Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 18:9 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.