Deuteronomy 31:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵהֶ֗ם בֶּן־מֵאָה֩ וְעֶשְׂרִ֨ים שָׁנָ֤ה אָנֹכִי֙ הַיּ֔וֹם לֹא־אוּכַ֥ל ע֖וֹד לָצֵ֣את וְלָב֑וֹא וַֽיהוָה֙ אָמַ֣ר אֵלַ֔י לֹ֥א תַעֲבֹ֖ר אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּ֥ן הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And wə-yōʾmer to-them ben-hundred and-twenty šānāh ʾānōkî the-yôm, not-ʾûkal still to-lāṣēʾt and-to-lābôʾ; and-YHWH ʾāmar to-me, not taʿăbōr ʾet-the-yardēn the-zeh.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'and he said'
• *ben*: construct state - 'son of/aged'
• *šānāh*: noun feminine singular - 'year'
• *ʾānōkî*: personal pronoun 1st singular - 'I'
• *yôm*: noun masculine singular with definite article - 'the day'
• *ʾûkal*: qal imperfect 1st singular - 'I am able'
• *lāṣēʾt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - 'to go out'
• *lābôʾ*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - 'to come in'
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - 'he said'
• *taʿăbōr*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - 'you will cross'
• *yardēn*: proper noun - 'Jordan'
• *zeh*: demonstrative adjective masculine singular - 'this'

Word Meanings

• *ʾûkal*: am able/can/have strength
• *lāṣēʾt*: to go out/depart/exit
• *lābôʾ*: to come in/enter/arrive
• *taʿăbōr*: you will cross/pass over/traverse

Referenced Verses

• Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.
• Num 27:17 : 17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.
• 1 Kgs 3:7 : 7 And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.
• Exod 7:7 : 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.
• Deut 3:26-27 : 26 But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing. 27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.
• Deut 4:21-22 : 21 And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage: 22 But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage.
• Deut 32:48-52 : 48 That same day the Lord said to Moses, 49 Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab opposite Jericho; there you may see the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel for their heritage: 50 And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people: 51 Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel. 52 So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.
• Josh 14:10-11 : 10 And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old. 11 And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.
• 2 Sam 21:17 : 17 But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.
• Num 20:12 : 12 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.
• Num 27:13-14 : 13 And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was: 14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)
• Deut 1:37 : 37 And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:
• Ps 90:10 : 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
• Acts 7:23 : 23 But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.
• Acts 20:25 : 25 And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.
• 2 Pet 1:13-14 : 13 And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory; 14 For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.