Deuteronomy 31:16 (KJV)

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And the LORD said unto Moses Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be among them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them

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thou shalt. Ge 25:8 2Sa 7:12 Isa 57:2 Ac 13:36

sleep. Heb. lie down.{Shochaiv,} "lying down:" it signifies to rest, take rest in sleep, and metaphorically, to die. Though much stress cannot be safely laid upon this expression to prove the immortality of the soul, or that the people, in the time of Moses, had a distinct notion of its separate existence; yet is was understood in this sense by Jonathan, who paraphrases the words thus: "Thou shalt lie down in the dust with thy fathers; and thy soul {nishmatoch) shall be laid up in the treasury of the life to come, with thy fathers." Job 20:11

and go a. Ex 32:6 Ex 34:15 Le 20:3-6 Re 1:17-20 Ps 73:27 Ps 106:39 Isa 57:3-8 Jer 3:1-3 Eze 16:15 Eze 16:25-36 Eze 23:5-8 Eze 23:9-21 Ho 2:2-5 Re 17:2-5 Re 19:2

forsake me. De 32:15 Re 1:12 Re 10:6 Re 11:2 Jer 2:11-13

break my. Le 26:15 Re 1:20 Jer 31:32

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