Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel — Moses is commanded to ascend Mount Abarim (the mountains east of Jordan) to view the promised land. Though Moses led the people for forty years, he himself will not enter Canaan. This is the consequence of his sin at Meribah (Numbers 20:1-13, where he struck the rock in anger rather than speaking to it). The land-viewing is both mercy and judgment: Moses sees the covenant's fulfillment even as he is excluded from it.

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