📜WEB · Deuteronomy 34:5
What does Deuteronomy 34:5 mean?
"So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word."
— Deuteronomy 34:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the western sea,
and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
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