And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said unto him,.... The Word of the Lord, as the Jerusalem Targum, having shown him all the land of Canaan:
this is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob,…
Barnes' Notes
I have caused thee to see it - The sight thus afforded to Moses, like that of “all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time” Luk 4:5, was no doubt supernatural.
Here is, I. Moses climbing upwards towards heaven, as high as the top of Pisgah, there to die; for that was the place appointed, Deu 32:49, Deu 32:50. Israel lay encamped upon the flat grounds in the…
Cambridge Bible
the land which I sware, etc.] As Exo 33:1, see above on Deu 1:8.
thou shalt not go over thither Deu 1:37; Deu 3:27; Deu 4:21 f., and in P, Deu 32:52; Num 20:12.
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