“Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.”
Get up into the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan -- the compensation is vision instead of passage. From Pisgah's height, Moses will survey the entire promised land. The four-directional view (westward, northward, southward, eastward) allows complete panorama. Seeing is the alternative to entering. The negative statement 'you shall not go over this Jordan' reiterates the irreversible boundary.
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