Deuteronomy 32:48

Moses' Impending Death

48 On that same 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 these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

47 For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."

48 On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,

49 "Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim [range] in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.

50 Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.