King James Version
Deuteronomy 31:1 in the King James Version says “And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.”
Deuteronomy 31:1 · KJV
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
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“and spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“these words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“unto all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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