Deuteronomy 1:21 meaning and explanation

See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”

Deuteronomy 1:21, Berean Standard Bible

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Moses is speaking to the Israelites on the plains of Moab, retelling what he said at Kadesh-barnea forty years earlier. The land lies open before them, and Moses frames the command as a gift already given: God has placed it before them, so going up is not conquest but receiving.

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