Deuteronomy 33
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Summary
As they prepare to enter the promised land, Moses blesses the children of Israel. The tribe of Levi is commanded and blessed with the responsibility to teach God’s covenants and commandments to the Israelites. The tribe of Joseph is blessed above all. The tribes of Israel will be gathered by the Lord in the last days. Israel will triumph in the end because of the Lord.
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Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Jacob Highlight Nephi’s Role as a Protector? (Jacob 1:10),” KnoWhy 553 (March 11, 2020).
David E. Bokovoy, “‘Thou Knowest That I Believe’: Invoking The Spirit of the Lord as Council Witness in 1 Nephi 11,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 1 (2012): 1–23.
Matthew L. Bowen, “Jacob’s Protector,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 27 (2017): 229–256.
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Matthew Henry (1706)
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Adam Clarke (1831)
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Thomas Constable
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Albert Barnes (1834)
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John Gill (1746–63)
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Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)
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John Wesley (1754–65)