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Deuteronomy 34:5

Moses died there in the land of Moab, Moses the servant of God , just as God said. God buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. No one knows his burial site to this very day.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Moses;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Death of Saints, the;   Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nebo;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Nebo;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Servant of the Lord;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Moab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Mountain;   Pentateuch;   Slave/servant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels (2);   Assumption of Moses;   Righteousness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Moses ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Moses;   Pentateuch;   Sheol;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Adar;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;   Death, Views and Customs Concerning;   Moab;   Moses;   Servant of God;   Simḥat Torah;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for August 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s word.
Hebrew Names Version
So Moshe the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Mo'av, according to the word of the LORD.
King James Version
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab according to the command of Yahweh.
English Standard Version
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord ,
New Century Version
Then Moses, the servant of the Lord , died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.
New English Translation
So Moses, the servant of the Lord , died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.
Amplified Bible
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, in accordance with the word of the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Moses the seruant of the Lord dyed there in the land of Moab, according to the worde of the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the command of Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
And so, Moses the Lord 's servant died there in Moab, just as the Lord had said.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Moshe, the servant of Adonai , died there in the land of Mo'av, as Adonai had said.
Darby Translation
And Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses, the Lord 's servant, died there in the land of Moab. The Lord had told Moses this would happen.
George Lamsa Translation
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Good News Translation
So Moses, the Lord 's servant, died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said he would.
Literal Translation
And Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses ye seruaunt of the LORDE died there in the londe of the Moabites, acordinge vnto the worde of ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Moyses the seruaunt of the Lord dyed there in the lande of Moab, accordyng to the worde of the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
So Moses the seruant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab by the word of the Lord.
English Revised Version
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moyses, the seruaunt of the Lord, was deed there, in the lond of Moab, `for the Lord comaundide.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses, servant of the Lord, dieth there, in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah;
Update Bible Version
So Moses the slave of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
World English Bible
So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.
New King James Version
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
New Living Translation
So Moses, the servant of the Lord , died there in the land of Moab, just as the Lord had said.
New Life Bible
So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, as the Word of the Lord said.
New Revised Standard
Then Moses, the servant of the Lord , died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord 's command.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there, in the land of Moab, at the bidding of Yahweh;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the commandment of the Lord:
Revised Standard Version
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

5Moses died there in the land of Moab, Moses the servant of God , just as God said. God buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. No one knows his burial site to this very day. 7Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eyesight was sharp; he still walked with a spring in his step. The People of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

So Moses: Joshua 1:1, Malachi 4:4, John 8:35, John 8:36, 2 Timothy 2:25, Hebrews 3:3-6, 2 Peter 1:1, Revelation 15:3

died there: Deuteronomy 31:14, Deuteronomy 32:50, Joshua 1:1, Joshua 1:2

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:28 - died there Joshua 14:6 - the man Joshua 24:29 - after these 2 Kings 18:12 - Moses 1 Chronicles 6:49 - Moses 2 Chronicles 1:3 - the servant Psalms 36:1 - servant Ecclesiastes 3:2 - and a time Matthew 17:3 - Moses Mark 9:4 - Moses 2 Timothy 2:24 - the servant Hebrews 3:5 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 30:35
But that very day Laban removed all the mottled and spotted billy goats and all the speckled and spotted nanny goats, every animal that had even a touch of white on it plus all the black sheep and placed them under the care of his sons. Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Meanwhile Jacob went on tending what was left of Laban's flock.
Genesis 34:13
Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father with cunning. Their sister, after all, had been raped. They said, "This is impossible. We could never give our sister to a man who was uncircumcised. Why, we'd be disgraced. The only condition on which we can talk business is if all your men become circumcised like us. Then we will freely exchange daughters in marriage and make ourselves at home among you and become one big, happy family. But if this is not an acceptable condition, we will take our sister and leave."
Leviticus 10:3
Moses said to Aaron, "This is what God meant when he said, To the one who comes near me, I will show myself holy; Before all the people, I will show my glory." Aaron was silent.
1 Samuel 16:11
Then he asked Jesse, "Is this it? Are there no more sons?" "Well, yes, there's the runt. But he's out tending the sheep." Samuel ordered Jesse, "Go get him. We're not moving from this spot until he's here."
Luke 15:25
"All this time his older son was out in the field. When the day's work was done he came in. As he approached the house, he heard the music and dancing. Calling over one of the houseboys, he asked what was going on. He told him, ‘Your brother came home. Your father has ordered a feast—barbecued beef!—because he has him home safe and sound.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab,.... Which formerly belonged to Moab, and was taken from them by Sihon king of the Amorites, and now in the possession of Israel: here on a mountain in this land Moses died; and yet, contrary to the express words of this text, some Jewish writers affirm w that be died not, but was translated to heaven, where he ministers; yea, that he was an angel, and could not die: but it is clear he did die, even though a servant of the Lord, as he was, and a faithful one; but such die as well as others, Zechariah 1:5; there is a saying of some x Jews,

"Moses died, and who shall not die?''

no man can promise himself immortality here, when such great and good men die: the Targum of Jonathan says, he died on the seventh of Adar or February, on which day he was born; and it is the general opinion of the Jewish writers y, that he died on the seventh of that month, in the middle of the day, and that it was a sabbath day: though, as Aben Ezra observes z, some say he died on the first of Adar; and Josephus a is express for it, that it was at the new moon, or first day of the month; and with this agrees the calculation of Bishop Usher b:

according to the word of the Lord; according to the prophecy of the Lord, and according to a command of his, that he should go up to the above said mountain and die, Numbers 27:12; or, as the Targum of Jerusalem, according to the decree of the Lord; as the death of every man is, both with respect to time and place, and manner of it: it is appointed for men once to die, Hebrews 9:27; because it is in the original text, "according to the mouth of the Lord" c; hence some Jewish writers, as Jarchi particularly, interpret it of his dying by a kiss of his mouth, with strong expressions and intimations of his love to him, Song of Solomon 1:2; and no doubt but he did die satisfied of the love of God to him, enjoying his presence, and having faith and hope of everlasting life and salvation; but the true sense is, he died according to the will of God, not of any disease, or through the infirmities of age, but by the immediate order and call of God out of this life.

w T. Bab. Sotah, fol. 13. 2. Yalkut R. Abraham Seba in Tzeror Hammor in loc. x Seder Tephillot, fol. 213. 1. Ed. Basil. y T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 38. 1. Seder Olam Rabba, c. 10. p. 29. Judasin, fol. 10. 1. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 7. 2. so Patricides apud Hottinger, p. 457. z Pirush in Deut. i. 2. so Midrash Esther, fol. 93. 2. a Ut supra, (De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 18.) sect. 49. b Annales Vet. Test. p. 37. c על פי "super os", Montanus "juxta os", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

According to the word of the Lord - It denotes that Moses died, not because his vital powers were exhausted, but by the sentence of God, and as a punishment for his sin. Compare Deuteronomy 32:51.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 34:5. So Moses - died - according to the word of the Lord. — על פי יהוה al pi Yehovah, at the mouth of Jehovah; i. e., by the especial command and authority of the Lord; but it is possible that what is here said refers only to the sentence of his exclusion from the promised land, when he offended at the waters of Meribah.


 
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