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Exodus and wilderness

Moses dies on Mount Nebo

1451 BCUssher date

Deuteronomy 34; Jude 9; Matthew 17:3

From the top of Mount Nebo, God showed Moses the whole Promised Land; then Moses died at 120, and God buried him.

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face

Deuteronomy 34:10 (World English Bible)
Great SeaRamesesSuccothRed Sea crossing(traditional area)MarahElimRephidimMount Sinai(traditional site)proposed alternateSinai (Midian)Kadesh BarneaEzion-geberMount HorNeboJerichoEdomMoabWilderness of ParanYears 1–2: Egypt to Sinai to KadeshYear 40: Kadesh around Edom to the plains of MoabCoastlines simplified
The Exodus route on the traditional southern Sinai view. Many sites, and the crossing point itself, are debated.

Moses' eyes were still sharp and his strength undiminished. God showed him the land from the far north to the Negev and said, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham.” Moses died there, and God himself buried him in a valley in Moab; no one knows where. Israel mourned thirty days.

Moses never entered Canaan in his lifetime, but he stood on a mountain in the land centuries later, talking with Jesus at the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:3).

Places

MoabGileadJerichoNegebGreat SeaMoabZoarPisgahBeth-peorCity of PalmsMount NeboValley of Jericho

Dating notes

Moses was 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7). Ussher places his death in the 12th month of the 40th year, early in 1451 BC, a month before Israel crossed the Jordan.

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