Deuteronomy 2:4

2:4 Instruct 1  these people as follows: ‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives 2  the descendants of Esau, 3  who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

Deuteronomy 2:29

2:29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.”

Deuteronomy 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites 4  equipped for battle.

Deuteronomy 3:27

3:27 Go up to the top of Pisgah and take a good look to the west, north, south, and east, 5  for you will not be allowed to cross the Jordan.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. 6 

Deuteronomy 30:13

30:13 And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

Deuteronomy 31:2

31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, 7  and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’

Deuteronomy 32:47

32:47 For this is no idle word for you – it is your life! By this word you will live a long time in the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

Deuteronomy 34:4

34:4 Then the Lord said to him, “This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ 8  I have let you see it, 9  but you will not cross over there.”

1 tn Heb “command” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “charge the people as follows.”

2 tn Heb “brothers”; NAB “your kinsmen.”

3 sn The descendants of Esau (Heb “sons of Esau”; the phrase also occurs in 2:8, 12, 22, 29). These are the inhabitants of the land otherwise known as Edom, south and east of the Dead Sea. Jacob’s brother Esau had settled there after his bitter strife with Jacob (Gen 36:1-8). “Edom” means “reddish,” probably because of the red sandstone of the region, but also by popular etymology because Esau, at birth, was reddish (Gen 25:25).

4 tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”

5 tn Heb “lift your eyes to the west, north, south, and east and see with your eyes.” The translation omits the repetition of “your eyes” for stylistic reasons.

6 tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

7 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”

8 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

9 tn The Hebrew text includes “with your eyes,” but this is redundant in English and is left untranslated.