The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
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The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
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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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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.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 34:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 50:3 Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
- Numbers 20:29 When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
- Genesis 50:10 They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
- 1 Samuel 25:1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.
- Acts 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for…
Deu 34:8 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.
Ver. 8. And the children of Israel wept.] And were ready to wish, likely, as the Romans did for Augustus, that either he had never been born, or never died.
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Thirty days.] As before they had done for Aaron. {Num 20:29} The Jewish doctors tell us that Moses was born on the seventh day of the month Adar (which answereth to our February), and that on the seventh day of the same month Adar he was taken out of the world, being exactly 120 years old. One third part of his days he spent in Egypt, another in Midian, and the last in conducting this people to the borders of Canaan, as Josephus {a} well observeth. The Jews to this day keep a solemn fast on the seventh of Adar, in remembrance of his death.
{a} Antiq., lib. iv. ad fin.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thirty days was the usual time of mourning for…
Thirty days was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. See Gen 1:3,10; Num 20:29. For others seven days sufficed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the children of Israel wept for Moses in…
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days,.... According both to Josephus (n) and the Samaritan Chronicle (o), they cried and wept in a very vehement manner, when he signified to them his approaching death, and took his leave of them; and when he was dead they mourned for him, in a public manner, the space of time here mentioned, the time of mourning for his brother Aaron, Num 20:29,
so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended; on the eighth of Nisan or March, as says the Targum of Jonathan, and on the "ninth" they prepared their vessels and their cattle for a march, and on the tenth passed over Jordan, and on the "sixteenth" the manna ceased, according to the said paraphrase.
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(n) Ut supra. (De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 49.) (o) Apud Hottinger, p. 456.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thirty day's - Which was the usual time of…
Thirty day's - Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminency. 'Tis 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 the loss, and humbled for the sins which have provoked God to deprive us of them.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 34:8. Thirty days — Which was the usual…
Deu 34:8. Thirty days — Which was the usual time of mourning for persons of high place and eminence. 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 the loss of them, and humbled for the sins which have provoked God to deprive us of them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Days, as they had done for Mary [Miriam] and…
Days, as they had done for Mary [Miriam] and for Aaron: (Josephus) the usual term was only seven days. (Calmet) --- The Jews would probably have prolonged their mourning for Moses forty days, in honour of the years of his government, if they had not been ordered to cross the Jordan. (Salien)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain wept for Moses . . . thirty days--Seven days…
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 (Gen 50:3-10; Num 20:29).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. The children of Israel wept for Moses in…
8. The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days — So “they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.” Num_20:29.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. the children of Israel wept … thirty days]…
8. the children of Israel wept … thirty days] So P, Num_20:29, of Aaron; plains of Moab again ‘arbôth Mo’ab, see Deu_34:1.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) The children of Israel wept for Moses .…
(8) The children of Israel wept for Moses . . . thirty days . . .—As they did for Aaron, his brother (Num_20:29). It is remarkable that the burial and the tomb of Aaron are only alluded to in Deu_10:6. (See Note and Excursus on that passage.) Miriam was buried in Kadesh (Num_20:1).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The people mourned for Moses thirty days, as they…
The people mourned for Moses thirty days, as they did for. (Num_20:29)
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