7And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
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And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. …
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-8)Here is, I. The death of Moses (Deut. 34:5): Moses the servant of the Lord died . God told him he must not go over Jordan, and, though at first he prayed earnestly for the reversing of the sentence yet God’s answer to his prayer sufficed him, and now he spoke no more of that matter , Deut. 3:26. Thus our blessed Saviour prayed that the cup might pass from him, yet, since it might not, he acquiesce…
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