Deuteronomy 34:8
in Deuteronomy 34The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
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ASV
And 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.
KJV
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 34
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died
on Deuteronomy 34:7-8
His eyes “were not weak”, so the text refuses to explain the death by age, and verse 5 has already given the cause, the word of the LORD. At 31:2 Moses said he could no longer come and go, which readers take of the ban on crossing, since this verse says his strength had not failed. Israel mourns thirty days, as for Aaron at Numbers 20:29.
This site's exposition
grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab
Genesis closes on a death in Egypt and Deuteronomy on a death in Moab. The Egyptians mourned Jacob seventy days at Genesis 50:3, and Joseph died asking that his bones be carried up to the land. Both books end with the people outside the promised land.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days,....
It is a debt owing to the surviving honour of deceased worthies to follow them with our tears, as those who loved and valued them, are sensible of our loss of them, and are truly humbled for those sins which have provoked God to deprive us of them; for penitential tears very fitly mix with these.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
wept for Moses . . . thirty days--Seven days was the usual period of mourning, but for persons in high rank or official eminence, it was extended to thirty (Ge 50:3-10;
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The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּבְכּוּ֩ | vaiyivku | and they wept for | H1058 → | 114 times |
| בְנֵ֨י | venei | [the] people of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֛ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| בְּעַֽרְבֹ֥ת | bearvot | in [the] desert plains of | H6160 → | 61 times |
| מוֹאָ֖ב | moav | Moab | H4124 → | 181 times |
| שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים | sheloshim | thirty | H7970 → | |
| י֑וֹם | yom | day[s] | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| וַֽיִּתְּמ֔וּ | vaiyitemu | and they were completed | H8552 → | 63 times |
| יְמֵ֥י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| בְכִ֖י | vekhi | [the] weeping of | H1065 → | |
| אֵ֥בֶל | ʾevel | [the] mourning of | H60 → | |
| מֹשֶֽׁה׃ | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
וַיִּבְכּוּ֩and they wept for
vaiyivkuH1058 →114 times
בְנֵ֨י[the] people of
veneiH1121 →4930 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֧לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
מֹשֶׁ֛הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
בְּעַֽרְבֹ֥תin [the] desert plains of
bearvotH6160 →61 times
מוֹאָ֖בMoab
moavH4124 →181 times
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣יםthirty
sheloshimH7970 →
י֑וֹםday[s]
yomH3117 →2304 times
וַֽיִּתְּמ֔וּand they were completed
vaiyitemuH8552 →63 times
יְמֵ֥י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
בְכִ֖י[the] weeping of
vekhiH1065 →
אֵ֥בֶל[the] mourning of
ʾevelH60 →
מֹשֶֽׁה׃Moses
moshehH4872 →765 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 57:1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 22:20
‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’”…
- Psalms 12:1
Help, O LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28
‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place…
- Micah 7:2
The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Isaiah 42:25
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to…
- 2 Kings 22:20
Through
Genesis 50:10When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
it leads to
- Acts 8:2
God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Job 2:13
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
- 2 Samuel 1:17
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
- Acts 8:2
Where this verse is studied
On this page
Studies1
About Deuteronomy
Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Berean Standard Bible, Genesis 50:3, 50:24-26; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.