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Moses ascends the mount to learn God’s will, and, when he has finished his work, he goes to Him to die, and to find from Him his sepulchre. He, whose servant he is, takes him back into His keeping, in the spirit of that grand old psalm which comes down to us as “A prayer of Moses, the man of God” (Psalms 90); “Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.”
Moses’ Last Words to Israel - Moses the man of God prayed before his death that good would come to the people of Israel. He said, “The Lord came from Sinai. He came upon us from Seir. He shined from Mount Paran. He came among 10,000 holy ones. He came with fire at His right hand. Yes, He loves His people. All Your holy ones are in Your hand. They followed in Your steps. They receive Your ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Aaron died soon after this event. His death is recorded in the same chapter: God told Moses and Eleazar to go up Mount Hor. Aaron’s priestly robes were removed and his son Eleazar put them on. Then Aaron died, in the presence of Moses and Eleazar. It would seem that Moses’ death is similar, although it happens many years apart.
- Moses Pleads For His Life
- The Sins of Moses in The Poem of Pinchas Hakohen
- First Stanza: Killing The Egyptian
- Five More Non-Sins: Stanzas 2–6
- Stanza 7: The Sin at The Rock
- Moses’ Proposals to Enter The Land
- God’s Final Response: The Divine Kiss
Several of these poems elaborate on the theme of Moses pleading with God for a reprieve from death, a theme that is also developed in the prose literature of the age—the classical midrashim and the short work Petirat Moshe. Moses prayed 515 times that he be spared, according to Devarim Rabbah (11:10),and assorted midrashic texts offer varying versi...
The poem consists of eleven stanzas, each divided into two parts, with Moses pleading in the first part and God refuting his plea in the second. In the first section of the poem, Moses proposes reasons (and excuses) for his sins, and in the second section, he suggests alternatives to dying.
The first stanza will provide an example of the deeds that Moses proposes might be the reason for the decree. Note the compactness, bordering on obscurity, of the Hebrew in the stanzas, as contrasted with the simplicity, bordering on tautology, of the introduction and the refrain: To paraphrase: “If you are punishing me for killing the Egyptian who...
In the succeeding stanzas, Moses proposes other reasons for which he might be being punished; for each, he offers explanations and excuses:
In stanza 7, Moses at last brings up the confrontation at the rock (Num 20:1–13), when the Israelites cried out for water, and Moses and Aaron fail to carry out God’s decree in the way God wished: Although that passage does not explicitly mention Moses’ death, Numbers 27:12–14 makes this implication explicit when God tells Moses that his death in t...
Moses now accepts his death, but he is not yet ready to submit, because of his unfulfilled ambition to see the Promised Land. In this, too, he resembles the rest of us. Like us, his hatred of the inevitability of death is exacerbated by the thought of not knowing what happens next. Is God so ungenerous as to deny us even a glimpse of the future? Mo...
God has had enough. But the speech in which He concludes the argument is not the rebuke that we might have expected. In Hebrew diction, that contrasts in clarity with the preceding stanzas, He confesses that He has found Moses’ speeches beautiful; nevertheless, He demands obedience. Moses will die. Not, however as other men die, but by the divine k...
Moses was a prophet, and before he died, he blessed the tribes of Israel by saying: English Revised Version And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. GOD'S WORD® Translation Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites with this blessing before he died. Good News Translation
In Deuteronomy 31:1-8 Moses publicly commissioned Joshua before the people. He told them to be strong and courageous. The Lord will go before them. Deuteronomy 34:1-12—Even though he was 120 years old, Moses had good vision and was strong enough to climb Mount Nebo. The Lord showed him all of the Promised Land before he died.
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34:7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated. 34:8. And the Israelites bewailed Moses in the steppes of Moab for thirty days. The period of wailing and mourning for Moses came to an end. 34:9.
