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Deuteronomy / Chapter 34
Deuteronomy 34 closes Moses’ leadership by showing him the land from a final vantage point, reporting his death and undisclosed burial, shifting the people to Joshua’s leadership, and ending with a concluding tribute.
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder 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 seed: 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 the word of Yahweh.
He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.
Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.
Deuteronomy journey · Deuteronomy 34
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Moses calls Israel to covenant faithfulness before entering the land.
Movement
Remembering the covenant before the land
Artifact
Covenant sermons at the border
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Exodus & Settlement
Deuteronomy context: 1500 BC - 1000 BC
Deuteronomy context
Exodus & Settlement / 1500 BC - 1000 BC
Deuteronomy context is set in the exodus and settlement period, where Moses, the exodus, wilderness, covenant instruction, conquest, and judges.
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Date
Plains of Moab setting, c. 1406 BC
Genre
Covenant sermons and Torah instruction
Setting
Plains of Moab
Audience
Israel
World Stage
Moses and the wilderness generation Plains of Moab setting
Deuteronomy is set east of the Jordan as Israel prepares to enter the land. Moses renews covenant memory, worship, justice, and obedience for a people moving from wilderness life toward settled life in Canaan.
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