Moses’ Impending Death

⁴⁸ On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,^{(A) 49} “Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession. ⁵⁰ Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.^{(B) 51} For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence. ⁵² Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”^(C)

⁴ The Lord then said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’^(A) I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

⁵ So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said. ⁶ He buried him^[a] in the valley^(B) in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.^{(C) 7} Moses was 120 years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him.