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Deuteronomy 29:22

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites gathered at Moab, outlining the covenant consequences for future observers who will witness the land's desolation.

The words — דּוֹר (Dor) = generation and נָכְרִי (na.khe.Ri) = foreigner.

The thread — The text anticipates outsiders witnessing ruin, paralleling Jeremiah 19:8 where passersby appall at a city made desolation.

Why it lands — The verse states that future generations and distant foreigners will physically observe the plagues and sicknesses the LORD inflicted, serving as a concrete warning of covenant breach.

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The Hebrew words

וְאָמַ֞רve./'a.Marand/ it will sayהַדּ֣וֹרha./Dorthe/ generationהָֽאַחֲר֗וֹןha./'a.cha.Ron<the>/ laterבְּנֵיכֶם֙be.nei./Khemchildren/ yourאֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.Sherwhoיָק֙וּמוּ֙ya.Ku.muthey will ariseמֵאַ֣חֲרֵיכֶ֔םme./'A.cha.rei./Khemfrom/ after/ youוְהַ֨נָּכְרִ֔יve./Ha./na.khe.Riand/ the/ foreignerאֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.Sherwhoיָבֹ֖אya.Vo'he will comeמֵאֶ֣רֶץme./'E.retzfrom/ a landרְחוֹקָ֑הre.cho.Kahdistantוְ֠רָאוּVe./ra.'uand/ they will seeאֶת־'et-<obj.>מַכּ֞וֹתma.Kot[the] plagues ofהָאָ֤רֶץha./'A.retzthe/ landהַהִוא֙ha./hi.V'<the>/ thatוְאֶת־ve./'Etand/ <obj.>תַּ֣חֲלֻאֶ֔יהָta.cha.lu.'Ei./hadiseases/ itsאֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whichחִלָּ֥הchi.Lahhe has made sickיְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehבָּֽהּ׃Ba/h<in> <the>/ it

King James Version

So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

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