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Deuteronomy 31:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.” "
Deuteronomy 31:8
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6 Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
7 Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
8 The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
9 Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
10 Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
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Deuteronomy 31:1
"Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel."
Deuteronomy 31:2
"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.’"
Deuteronomy 31:3
"The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as the LORD has spoken."
Deuteronomy 31:4
"The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them."
Deuteronomy 31:5
"The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you."
Deuteronomy 31:6
"Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for the LORD your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”"
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