Deuteronomy 34 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Death of Moses

Deu 34:1And Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the Lord let him see all the land, the land of Gilead as far as Dan;

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Deu 34:2And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;

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Deu 34:3And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.

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Deu 34:4And the Lord said to him, This is the land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: now I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go in there.

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Deu 34:5So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

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Deu 34:6And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day.

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Deu 34:7And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.

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Deu 34:8For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended.

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Deu 34:9And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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Deu 34:10There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had knowledge of face to face;

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Deu 34:11In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

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Deu 34:12And in all the acts of power and fear which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Deuteronomy 34 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Death of Moses

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