OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 31:2

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He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

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Verse 2. Come in, to conduct you. Menochius.—Especially. Hebrew “and the Lord.” It was not the want of strength which hindered Moses from continuing to perform his arduous functions, as he was still full of vigour both in soul and body; (Calmet. 34:7. Calmet.) but it was his submission to the will of God, who had resolved thus to punish his former diffidence. Bible.

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