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Deuteronomy 1:39

American Standard Version

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

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Deuteronomy 1:39 in other translations

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Deuteronomy 1:39 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 1:39 in context

  1. 37Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:
  2. 38Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage thou him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
  3. 39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
  4. 40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
  5. 41Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.