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Young's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 34:7

And Moses [is] a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Infirmity;   Israel;   Longevity;   Miracles;   Moses;   Old Age;   Thompson Chain Reference - Long Life;   Longevity;   Old Age;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nebo;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abarim;   Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Stephen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Mountain;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Medicine;   Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Age of Man;   Moses ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abate;   Deuteronomy;   Egypt;   Eyes, Diseases of the;   Moses;   Natural;   Number;   Pentateuch;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Forty, the Number;   Moab;   Moses;   Simḥat Torah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.
Hebrew Names Version
Moshe was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
King James Version
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Lexham English Bible
Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated.
English Standard Version
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
New Century Version
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not weak, and he was still strong.
New English Translation
Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.
Amplified Bible
Although Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor his natural strength abated.
New American Standard Bible
Although Moses was 120 years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor had his vigor left him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moses was nowe an hundreth and twentie yeere olde when hee died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.
Contemporary English Version
Moses was a hundred twenty years old when he died, yet his eyesight was still good, and his body was strong.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe was 120 years old when he died, with eyes undimmed and vigor undiminished.
Darby Translation
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses was 120 years old when he died. He was as strong as ever, and his eyes were still good.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; but his eye was not dim, nor the skin of his cheeks wrinkled.
Good News Translation
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good.
Literal Translation
And Moses was a son of a hundred and twenty years at his death; his eye had not become dim, nor had his natural force abated.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses was an hundreth and twentye yeare olde whan he dyed: his eyes were not dymme, and his chekes were not fallen.
American Standard Version
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses was an hundred and twentie yeres olde when he dyed: his eye was not dymme, nor his naturall force abated.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses was an hundred and twentie yeeres olde when he died: his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old at his death; his eyes were not dimmed, nor were his natural powers destroyed.
English Revised Version
And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Berean Standard Bible
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moises was of an hundrid and twenti yeer whanne he diede; his iye dasewide not, nethir hise teeth weren stirid.
Update Bible Version
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses [was] a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
World English Bible
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
New King James Version
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.
New Living Translation
Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever.
New Life Bible
Moses was 120 years old when he died. But his eyes were not weak, and his strength had not left him.
New Revised Standard
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired and his vigor had not abated.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, Moses, was a hundred and twenty years old, when he died, - his eye had not dimmed, nor had his freshness fled.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.
Revised Standard Version
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
THE MESSAGE
Moses 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

Contextual Overview

5 And Moses, servant of the Lord, dieth there, in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah; 6 and He burieth him in a valley in the land of Moab, over-against Beth-Peor, and no man hath known his burying place unto this day. 7 And Moses [is] a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled. 8 And the sons of Israel bewail Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses are completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an hundred: Deuteronomy 31:2, Acts 7:23, Acts 7:30, Acts 7:36

his eye: Genesis 27:1, Genesis 48:10, Joshua 14:10, Joshua 14:11

natural force abated: Heb. moisture fled

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - have not Exodus 7:7 - General 2 Samuel 19:32 - fourscore 1 Kings 14:4 - for his eyes Job 33:25 - return Job 42:16 - an Psalms 90:10 - The days

Cross-References

Genesis 20:9
and Abimelech calleth for Abraham, and saith to him, `What hast thou done to us? and what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought upon me, and upon my kingdom, a great sin? works which are not done thou hast done with me.'
Genesis 34:5
And Jacob hath heard that he hath defiled Dinah his daughter, and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silent till their coming.
Genesis 34:6
And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;
Genesis 34:12
multiply on me exceedingly dowry and gift, and I give as ye say unto me, and give to me the young person for a wife.'
Genesis 34:13
And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),
Genesis 34:22
`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;
Genesis 34:25
And it cometh to pass, on the third day, in their being pained, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, take each his sword, and come in against the city confidently, and slay every male;
Genesis 46:7
his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, yea, all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.
Leviticus 4:2
`Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, When a person doth sin through ignorance against any of the commands of Jehovah [regarding things] which are not to be done, and hath done [something] against one of these --
Leviticus 4:13
`And if the whole company of Israel err ignorantly, and the thing hath been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done [something against] one of all the commands of Jehovah [concerning things] which are not to be done, and have been guilty;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died,.... Which age of his may be divided into three equal periods, forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty in the care and government of Israel, in Egypt and in the wilderness; so long he lived, though the common age of man in his time was but threescore years and ten, Psalms 90:10; and what is most extraordinary is,

his eyes were not dim; as Isaac's were, and men at such an age, and under, generally be:

nor his natural force abated; neither the rigour of his mind nor the strength of his body; his intellectuals were not decayed, his memory and judgment; nor was his body feeble, and his countenance aged; his "moisture" was not "fled" m, as it may be rendered, his radical moisture; he did not look withered and wrinkled, but plump and sleek, as if he was a young man in the prime of his days: this may denote the continued use of the ceremonial law then to direct to Christ, and the force of the moral law as in the hands of Christ, requiring obedience and conformity to it, as a rule of walk and conversation, 1 Corinthians 9:21.

m So Ainsworth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 34:7. His eye was not dim — Even at the advanced age of a hundred and twenty; nor his natural force abated - he was a young man even in old age, notwithstanding the unparalleled hardships he had gone through. See the account of his life at the end of this chapter (Deuteronomy 34:10).


 
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