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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 21:20

and from Bamoth in the valley which is in the field of Moab to the top of Pisgah, and looking toward the wilderness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bamoth;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Mountains;   Pisgah, Mount;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Mountains;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bamah, Plural Bamoth;   Desert;   Pisgah;   Serpents;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Pisgah;   Reuben;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bamoth;   Desert;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bamoth-Baal;   Jeshimon;   Moab;   Pisgah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bamoth;   Field;   Jeshimon;   Pisgah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jephthah;   Jeshimon;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Pisgah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Arnon ;   Bamoth ;   Jeshimon ;   Moab, Moabites ;   Pisgah ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Bamah;   Mount pisgah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Pisgah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jesh'imon;   Pis'gah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bamoth;   Head;   Jeshimon;   Moses;   Pisgah;   Vale;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nebo, Mount;   Pisgah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
and from Bamot to the valley that is in the field of Mo'av, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
King James Version
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.
Lexham English Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland.
English Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.
New Century Version
From Bamoth they went to the valley of Moab where the top of Mount Pisgah looks over the desert.
New English Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.
Amplified Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.
New American Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the desert.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the plaine of Moab, to the top of Pisgah that looketh toward Ieshimon.
Legacy Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland.
Contemporary English Version
Finally, they reached Moabite territory, where they camped near Mount Pisgah in a valley overlooking the desert north of the Dead Sea.
Complete Jewish Bible
and from Bamot to the valley by the plain of Mo'av at the start of the Pisgah range, where it overlooks the desert.
Darby Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the fields of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks over the surface of the waste.
Easy-to-Read Version
They traveled from Bamoth to the Valley of Moab. In this place the top of the Pisgah Mountain looks over the desert.
George Lamsa Translation
And from Bamoth in the valley, which is in the country of Moab, to the top of the hill which looks toward Ashimon (the desert).
Good News Translation
and from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of the Moabites, below the top of Mount Pisgah, looking out over the desert.
Christian Standard Bible®
from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands that overlook the wasteland.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and fro Bamoth vnto the valley that lieth in ye felde of Moab at the toppe of Pisga, and turneth towarde the wyldernesse.
American Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Bible in Basic English
And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And from Bamoth of the valley that is in the fielde of Moab, vnto the top of the hyll that loketh towarde Iesimon.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
King James Version (1611)
And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the countrey of Moab, to the toppe of Pisgah, which looketh toward Ieshimon.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses sent ambassadors to Seon king of the Amorites, with peaceable words, saying,
English Revised Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Berean Standard Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bamoth is a valey in the cuntrey of Moab, in the cop of Phasga, that biholdith ayens the deseert.
Young's Literal Translation
and from Bamoth in the valley which [is] in the field of Moab [to] the top of Pisgah, which hath looked on the front of the wilderness.
Update Bible Version
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
Webster's Bible Translation
And from Bamoth [in] the valley, that [is] in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh towards Jeshimon.
World English Bible
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
New King James Version
and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland. [fn]
New Living Translation
After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.
New Life Bible
From Bamoth they went to the valley in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.
New Revised Standard
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that overlooks the wasteland.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, from Bamoth of the valley, which is in the field-country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, - which over-looketh Jeshimon.
Douay-Rheims Bible
From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
Revised Standard Version
and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah which looks down upon the desert.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the land of Moab, at the top of Pisgah which overlooks the wasteland.

Contextual Overview

10 And the sons of Israel pulled up stakes and encamped in Oboth. 11 And they pulled up stakes from Oboth, and camped in Ijeabarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, toward the rising of the sun. 12 From there they pulled up stakes and camped in the valley of Zered. 13 From there they pulled up stakes and camped beyond Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorite; for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite; 14 therefore, it is said in the Book of the Wars of Jehovah: Waheb in Suphah, the torrents of Arnon, 15 and the slope of the torrent-beds that turn down toward the site of Ar, and lean on the border of Moab. 16 And from there they went to Beer; that is the well of which Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying , Gather the people and I will give water to them. 17 Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well, sing to it; 18 The well which the rulers dug, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves, at the word of the Lawgiver. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah. 19 And from Mattanah they went to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

country: Heb. field, Numbers 22:1, Numbers 26:63, Numbers 33:49, Numbers 33:50, Deuteronomy 1:5

to the: Numbers 23:14, Deuteronomy 3:27, Deuteronomy 4:49, Deuteronomy 34:1

Pisgah: or the hill

Jeshimon: or, the wilderness, Numbers 23:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:2 - General Numbers 22:41 - high places Numbers 32:34 - Dibon Numbers 33:47 - the mountains Deuteronomy 11:29 - General Joshua 12:3 - Ashdothpisgah

Cross-References

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; so it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.
Genesis 16:12
And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers.
Genesis 17:20
And as to Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 21:2
And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the time appointed, that which God had spoken with him.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called the name of the son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac.
Genesis 21:23
And now swear to me here by God, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived.
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, I will swear.
Genesis 21:25
And Abraham reproved Abimelech on account of a well of water which the slaves of Abimelech had seized.
Genesis 25:27
And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.
Genesis 27:3
And now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field and hunt game for me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And from Bamoth, [in] the valley,.... Or rather "to the valley", as the Targum of Onkelos, since Bamoth signifies high places; though, according to the Jerusalem Talmud o, Bamoth, Baal, which seems to be the same place, was in a plain:

that is in the country of Moab; the valley belonged to Moab, into which Israel came:

to the top of Pisgah; not that the valley reached to the top, nor did the children of Israel go to the top of it, only Moses, but rather to the bottom, which indeed is meant; for it intends the beginning of it, where Pisgah, which was an high mountain near the plains of Moab, began, and which was properly the foot of it:

which looketh towards Jeshimon; that is, Pisgah, as Jarchi rightly interprets it, which looked over a place called Jeshimon; and which signifies a wilderness, and is no other indeed than the wilderness of Kedemoth, Deuteronomy 2:26 for from thence the following messengers were sent.

o Sheviith, fol. 38. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the country of Moab - Rather, in the field of Moab: the upland pastures, or flat downs, intersected by the ravine of Wady Waleh.

Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon - Or, “toward the waste.” See Numbers 33:47. Pisgah was a ridge of the Abarim mountains, westward from Heshbon. From the summit the Israelites gained their first view of the wastes of the Dead Sea and of the valley of the Jordan: and Moses again ascended it, to view, before his death, the land of promise. The interest attaching to the spot, and the need of a convenient name for it, has led Christians often to designate it as “Nebo,” rather than as “the mountain of, or near to, Nebo;” but the latter is the more correct: Nebo denoted the town Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 48:22 on the western slope of the ridge.


 
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