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Deuteronomy 1:20

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE

And I said to you, 'You have come to the mountain country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving to us.'

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Moses is reminding the Israelites that they had reached the land God promised to give them - the territory where the Amorites lived.

📚 Historical Context

Moses is recounting to the Israelites their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. The Amorites were one of the powerful Canaanite peoples who occupied the hill country of what would become Israel. This moment represents the Israelites standing at the threshold of the land God had promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob centuries earlier.

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Translation & Methodology Sources

The original manuscript text provided is based on the King James Version (KJV), which is in the public domain. Our modern English simplifications are generated via proprietary philological synthesis, cross-referenced against Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and the Textus Receptus to ensure unwavering theological and etymological precision.

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