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Deuteronomy 31:16

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thou shalt: Genesis 25:8; 2 Samuel 7:12; Isaiah 57:2; Acts 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: Exodus 32:6, Exodus 34:15; Leviticus 20:3-6; Judges 2:17-20; Psalms 73:27, Psalms 106:39; Isaiah 57:3-8; Jeremiah 3:1-3; Ezekiel 16:15, Ezekiel 16:25-36, Ezekiel 23:5-8, Ezekiel 23:9-21; Hosea 2:2-5; Revelation 17:2-5, Revelation 19:2

forsake me: Deuteronomy 32:15; Judges 2:12, Judges 10:6, Judges 10:13; Jeremiah 2:11-13

break my: Leviticus 26:15; Judges 2:20; Jeremiah 31:32

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