Deutéronome 11:30

Louis Segond

Ces montagnes ne sont-elles pas de l'autre côté du Jourdain, derrière le chemin de l'occident, au pays des Cananéens qui habitent dans la plaine vis-à-vis de Guilgal, près des chênes de Moré?

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ne sont-ils pas au delà du Jourdain, vers le chemin du soleil couchant, au pays des Cananéens qui demeurent dans la campagne, vis-à-vis de Guilgal, près des chênes de Moré?

Darby's French Translation
Ces montagnes ne sont-elles pas de l'autre côté du Jourdain, par delà le chemin du soleil couchant, qui traverse le pays des Cananéens qui habitent dans la plaine, vis-à-vis de Guilgal, à côté des chênes de Moré?

La Bible David Martin (1744)
[Ces montagnes] ne sont-elles pas au delà du Jourdain, sur le chemin qui tire vers le soleil couchant, au pays des Cananéens qui demeurent en la campagne, vis-à-vis de Guilgal, près des plaines de Moré?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gilgal: Genesis 12:6, Joshua 5:9, Judges 7:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:11 - beyond Jordan Deuteronomy 27:4 - in mount Ebal Joshua 8:30 - in mount Ebal Nehemiah 12:29 - the house Ezekiel 37:2 - valley

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Are they not on the other side Jordan,.... Opposite to that where Moses now was in the plains of Moab, even in Samaria; so in the Misnah t it is said,

"as soon as Israel passed over Jordan, they came to Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, which are in Samaria;''

but those mountains were not near Jordan nor Jericho, to which the people of Israel came first, but sixty miles from thence; though they were, as Moses says, on the other side from the place they now were:

by the way wherewith the sun goeth down; or, as the Targum of Jonathan,

"after the way of the sun setting;''

following that, or taking their direction from thence, signifying that they lay to the west of Jordan:

in the land of the Canaanites; of that particular tribe or nation which were eminently called Canaanites, for these dwelt by the sea by the coast of Jordan, Numbers 13:29 or as further described,

that dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal; in the plain open champaign country opposite to Gilgal; not that Gilgal Joshua encamped at before he came to Jericho, which in Moses's time was not known by that name, but another, as Dr. Lightfoot u observes, and he thinks Galilee is meant:

beside the plains of Moreh; near to Shechem, Genesis 12:6 and that Gerizim, one of these mountains, was not far from Shechem, is evident from Judges 9:6 and so in the Misnah w it is said, that these mountains were on the side of Shechem, which is in the plains of Moreh, as in Deuteronomy 11:30 as the plains of Moreh here denote Shechem, so there: Benjamin of Tudela says x there is a valley between them, in which lies Shechem; and in his time there were on Mount Gerizim fountains and orchards, but Mount Ebal was dry like stones and rocks. The Targum of Jonathan here, instead of Moreh, reads Mamre; see

Genesis 13:18.

t Sotah, c. 7. sect. 5. u Chorograph. Cent. c. 48. w Sotah, c. 7. sect. 5. x Itinerarium, p. 38, 40.