Deuteronomy 3:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “At that time, I charged you as follows: ‘Although the Lord your God has given you this land to occupy, all your troops shall cross over armed as the vanguard of your Israelite kin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; you [Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh] shall go over [the Jordan] armed before your brethren the other Israelites, all that are able for war.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ Then I commanded you: Although the LORD your God has given you this land to possess, you must now cross over before the rest of your Israelite relatives as a fighting force ready for battle!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And I instructed you at that time, saying: 'The Lord your God gives to you this land as an inheritance. Having armed yourselves, go before your brothers, the sons of Israel, all you strong men.

Deuteronomy 3:18 Cross References

Genesis 15:7

Then he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”

Numbers 33:53

You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Deuteronomy 5:31

But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances, that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’

Deuteronomy 6:1

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

Deuteronomy 9:6

“Know, then, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to occupy because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

Deuteronomy 12:1

“These are the statutes and ordinances that you must diligently observe in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to occupy all the days that you live on the earth.

Deuteronomy 15:4

There will, however, be no one in need among you, because the Lord is sure to bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession to occupy,

Deuteronomy 19:2

you shall set apart three cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 21:1

“If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,

Deuteronomy 25:19

Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies on every hand, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; do not forget.

Joshua 1:11

“Pass through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for in three days you are to cross over this Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.’ ”

Psalm 136:21

and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;