Deuteronomy 34: 1-9

Then, leaving the plains of Moab, Moses went up Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah opposite Jericho, and Yahweh showed him the whole land, Gilead as far as Dan... all the land of Judah as far as the Western sea, the desert and the stretch of the valley of Jericho, city of palm trees... Yahweh said to him, "This is the land I swore to give to the people of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the end of their wanderings in the desert. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross into it. There in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died as Yahweh had decreed, he buried him in the valley, in the land of Moab, but to this day no one has ever found his grave. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye undimmed, his vigor unimpaired. The suns of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab for thirty days, and when the days of morning were come to an end, a new leader was filled with the spirit of wisdom, and it was he that the sons of Israel obeyed, carrying out the order that Yahweh had given Moses.

Reading of July 29, 2007