John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 34:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, etc.] According both to Josephus f681 and the Samaritan Chronicle f682, 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, (<042029>Numbers 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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