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Deuteronomy 34:7

Deuteronomy 34:7
And 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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died,.... Which age of his may be divided into three equal periods, forty years in Pharaoh's court, forty years in Midian, and forty in the care…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 34:5-8

Here is, I. The death of Moses (Deu 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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

an hundred and twenty years Dates, we have seen, are characteristic of P; this one is a round number = three full generations (see on Deu 2:7); cp. Exo 7:7.

nor his natural force abated Lit. nor had…