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Moses then went up Mount Nebo, looked over the Promised Land spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty: So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the LORD. And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.
The Old Testament indicates that Enoch and Elijah were assumed into heaven while still alive and not experiencing physical death. There is also an idea that Moses was assumed bodily into Heaven after his death; this is based on the Epistle of Saint Jude, where Saint Michael the Archangel contends with Satan over the body of Moses.
Moses (Arabic: موسى ابن عمران Mūsā ibn ʿImrān, lit. ' Moses, son of Amram ') [1] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet.
The command is specified as coming "after the death of Moses.". [6] Moses had been mourned for 30 days after his death. [7] Assuming that the Divine command immediately followed the end of the mourning period, Moses must have died 30 days before 7 Nisan, i.e. 7 Adar.
Sifre 305 contains an exquisite little aggadah on Moses and the angel of death. [11] A long citation from the beginning of the midrash is also contained in a homily in Tanhuma [12] on the same theme, the death of Moses. A second recension is based on Proverbs 31:39, and is considered by Adolf Jellinek, but probably incorrectly, to be the older.
When Moses witnessed the quiet and peaceful death of Aaron he desired a similar death for himself. [30] After Aaron's death, the people accused Moses of having killed him through jealousy, but God cleared him from this suspicion by a miracle. [164] When Moses was about to take vengeance on Midian before his death, [165] he did not himself take ...
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Citing that a violent death was the appropriate death for a former robber—"All who take the sword will perish by the sword"—he opted to remain behind. He was joined by seven others, and they were together martyred by the bandits on 24 Paoni (July 1). [4] [7] A different story of Abba Moses' death is related in The Paradise of the Holy ...