Deuteronomy 34:1-6

1 Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan;

2 all the land of Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; all the land of Judah, extending to the Mediterranean Sea ;

3 the Negev; the Jordan Valley with Jericho—the city of palms—as far as Zoar.

4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have now allowed you to see it with your own eyes, but you will not enter the land.”

5 So Moses, the servant of the LORD, died there in the land of Moab, just as the LORD had said.

6 The LORD buried him in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.

Deuteronomy 34:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 34

This chapter informs us of Moses going up to the top of Pisgah, where he was shown the whole land of Canaan, De 34:1-4; of his death, burial, and age, De 34:5-7; of Israel's mourning for him, and the time of it, De 34:8; of his successor Joshua, De 34:9; and of the character of Moses, to whom no prophet was to be compared, De 34:10-12.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew the western sea.
• [b]. Hebrew He buried him; Samaritan Pentateuch and some Greek manuscripts read They buried him.