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{{italic title}}'''''La Terre Promise''''' is an [[oratorio]] in three parts by [[Jules Massenet]] to a French [[libretto]] by the composer based on the French translation of the [[Vulgate]] by [[Silvestre de Sacy]]. It was first performed at [[Église Saint-Eustache, Paris|L'église Saint-Eustache]] in [[Paris]] on March 15, 1900, with [[Jean Noté]], baritone, Lydia Nervil, soprano, and the orchestra and chorus totaling 400, directed by a former pupil of Massenet, Eugène d'Harcourt.<ref name="avantscene92"/> The work was preceded at its first performance by the French premiere of ''[[Das Liebesmahl der Apostel]]'' (given as ''La dernière Cène des Apôtres'').