Deuteronomy 1:39

And every young child who this day knows not good or evil—they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

In Context

38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands by thee, he shall enter in there; do thou strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

40And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:31And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.

Isaiah 7:15Butter and honey shall he eat, before he knows either to prefer evil, or choose the good.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 1:20-46

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. ( b. c. 1451.) 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be… Read the whole commentary →

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