Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 3:25
Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Lord God following his recounting of Israel’s military victories, positioned immediately before the divine refusal recorded in Deuteronomy 3:26.
The words — The Hebrew אֶעְבְּרָה־ נָּא ('e.berah-na) fuses "let me pass over" and "please," while וְאֶרְאֶה הָאָרֶץ הַטּוֹבָה (ve'er'eh ha'aretz ha'tovah) literally reads "so I may see the good land."
The thread — The phrase "good land" matches the promise in Exodus 3:8, while the denied crossing aligns with the sworn prohibition in Deuteronomy 4:21 and the terrain description in Deuteronomy 11:11.
Why it lands — The text records a direct request to witness the territory beyond the Jordan, establishing a clear boundary between divine promise and divine restriction that requires acceptance of the stated refusal.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 4:21 The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven.
- Ezekiel 20:6 On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
- Numbers 32:5 “If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”