Deuteronomy 33:1
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New International Version (©2011)
This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death:

English Standard Version (©2001)
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.

International Standard Version (©2012)
This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelis before his death.

NET Bible (©2006)
This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites with this blessing before he died.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

American King James Version
And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

American Standard Version
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God Moses blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

Darby Bible Translation
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

English Revised Version
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this is the with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the children of Israel before his death.

World English Bible
This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Young's Literal Translation
And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

33:1-5 To all his precepts, warnings, and prophecies, Moses added a solemn blessing. He begins with a description of the glorious appearances of God, in giving the law. His law works like fire. If received, it is melting, warming, purifying, and burns up the dross of corruption; if rejected, it hardens, sears, pains, and destroys. The Holy Spirit came down in cloven tongues, as of fire; for the gospel also is a fiery law. The law of God written in the heart, is a certain proof of the love of God shed abroad there: we must reckon His law one of the gifts of his grace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 1. - Moses the man of God. This appellation is applied to Moses only here and in Joshua 14:6 and the heading of Psalm 90. The phrase, "man of God," indicates one favored with Divine communications, and employed as God's messenger to men (cf. 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Kings 12:22). In this heading, the author of the blessing is clearly distinguished from the person by whom it was inserted in this place.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. Namely, what is related in the following verses, this being the general title to the chapter: Moses is called "the man of God", being raised up of God, and eminently qualified by him with gifts for the work he was called unto, and by whom he was inspired to say what is after expressed: it is a title given to prophets, 1 Samuel 9:6; and so Onkelos here paraphrases it,"Moses the prophet of the Lord,''and Aben Ezra observes, that this is said to show that he blessed Israel by a spirit of prophecy, and which he did a little before his death, when very near it; and, as the same writer says, on the very day of his death.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

CHAPTER 33

De 33:1-28. The Majesty of God.

1. Moses the man of God—This was a common designation of a prophet (1Sa 2:27; 9:6), and it is here applied to Moses, when, like Jacob, he was about to deliver ministerially before his death, a prophetic benediction to Israel.

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The Majesty of God
1And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir to them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. 3Yes, he loved the people; all his saints are in your hand: and they sat down at your feet; every one shall receive of your words. …

Genesis 27:4 Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die."
Joshua 14:6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me.
1 Samuel 2:27 Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Did I not clearly reveal myself to your ancestor's family when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh?
1 Samuel 9:6 But the servant replied, "Look, in this town there is a man of God; he is highly respected, and everything he says comes true. Let's go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take."
1 Chronicles 23:14 The sons of Moses the man of God were counted as part of the tribe of Levi.
Psalm 90:1 A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
Jeremiah 35:4 I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.