Deuteronomy 32:48

Moses' Death Foretold

48 That very day the LORD spoke to Moses,

Deuteronomy 32:48 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:48

And the Lord spake unto Moses the selfsame day
On which he finished the reading of the law, and the above song, which was the seventh of Adar or February; according to the Targum of Jonathan, the day he died on; according to the Egyptian Calendar ^F1, it was the sixteenth of that month, see ( Deuteronomy 34:5 ) ;

saying;
as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Apud Ludolf. Lex. Ethiop. p. 537.

Deuteronomy 32:48 In-Context

46 he said to them, "Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.

47 For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess."

48 That very day the LORD spoke to Moses,

49 "Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.

50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,