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Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

KJV

Audi, Israël : tu transgredieris hodie Jordanem, ut possideas nationes maximas et fortiores te, civitates ingentes, et ad cælum usque muratas,

Vulgate

Ἄκουε, Ἰσραήλ· σὺ διαβαίνεις σήμερον τὸν Ἰορδάνην τοῦτον εἰσελθεῖν κληρονομῆσαι ἔθνη μεγάλα καὶ ἰσχυρότερα μᾶλλον ἢ ὑμεῖς, πόλεις μεγάλας καὶ τειχήρεις ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ,

LXX

Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

ASV

שְׁמַ֣ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אַתָּ֨ה עֹבֵ֤ר הַ/יּוֹם֙ אֶת הַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן לָ/בֹא֙ לָ/רֶ֣שֶׁת גּוֹיִ֔ם גְּדֹלִ֥ים וַ/עֲצֻמִ֖ים מִמֶּ֑/ךָּ עָרִ֛ים גְּדֹלֹ֥ת וּ/בְצֻרֹ֖ת בַּ/שָּׁמָֽיִם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
בְּצֻר֖וֹת
btsrvt
verb · 37×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
הּ
h
verb · 232×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יַּרְדֵּ֔ן
yrdn
proper_noun · 182×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
עָצ֖וּם
'tsvm
adjective · 31×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Amos 2:9 — Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
  • Dan 4:11 — The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
  • Deut 1:28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of t
  • Deut 1:28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of t
  • Deut 3:18 — And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
  • Deut 4:38 — To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
  • Deut 4:38 — To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
  • Deut 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanit
  • Deut 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanit
  • Deut 11:23 — Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
  • Deut 11:23 — Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
  • Deut 11:31 — For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
  • Deut 11:31 — For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
  • Gen 11:4 — And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
  • Josh 1:11 — Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to p
  • Josh 1:11 — Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to p
  • Josh 12:8 — In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivite
  • Num 13:28 — Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
  • Num 13:31 — But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • Num 33:51 — Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;