Reference

Deuteronomy 34:4

And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
2

And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,

3

And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

4

And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

5

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

6

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth–peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

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Israel as Distinct

The "seed" mentioned here could be interpreted broadly to include spiritual descendants through faith, as argued in some Christian theological traditions, thereby not necessarily limiting the promise to a distinct ethnic or national Israel in a way that excludes the Church.