NGET BIBLE

Deuteronomy 34 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

Time Period

Around 1406 BC, the day of Moses' death, with the closing note written later

Location

Mount Nebo, a ridge in the Abarim range in Moab rising about 800 metres above the Dead Sea, with a wide view west across the Jordan valley

Audience

Israelite readers looking back on the founding era of their nation

Situation

Moses climbs Nebo, sees the whole land promised to Abraham's descendants, and dies there at 120. Israel mourns him thirty days, Joshua takes leadership, and a closing note says no prophet like Moses has since arisen.

Key Background

Thirty days of formal mourning matched the period observed for Aaron and marked the highest public honour for a leader. The statement that no one knows Moses' burial place mattered in a region where the tombs of great men often became shrines and places of ritual offering to the dead, a practice Israel's law forbade. The final paragraph speaks from a later vantage point, which is one reason ancient Jewish tradition discussed who wrote these closing verses.

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Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to to the top of which faces Jericho. And Yahweh showed him the whole land Gilead as far as Dan,

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all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the territory of Judah as far as the

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the and the plain the valley of Jericho, the of as far as Zoar.

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Yahweh said to him, "This is the land I to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross over into it."

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So Moses, the of died there in the land of Moab, just as had

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He in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite and no one knows his burial place to this day.

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Moses was a and when he died. His eyesight had not dimmed and his had not faded.

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The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

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Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with a of because Moses had on So the Israelites listened to and did what Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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No has ever risen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew to

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no one who matched all the and Yahweh sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his officials, and his entire land,

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and no one who matched the and that Moses displayed the of all

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