Deuteronomy 34:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 6. And he buried him, &c.— {And one buried him. / And he was buried.} Houb. All the frivolous conceits of the rabbis and others are entirely overthrown by the translation here given; in which it is barely asserted, that Moses, being dead, was buried in a certain valley, but that no man knoweth of his sepulchre at this day; which is the remark of the writer who made this addition to the Book of Deuteronomy, as was observed on ver. 1. And, as this was written, probably, several hundred years after the death of Moses, the words may be properly understood in this very obvious meaning; that time, which brings all things to decay, had left no foot-steps of the sepulchre of Moses, or had entirely worn out the remembrance of the precise place where his body was laid. If, as some would have us believe, the knowledge of Moses's sepulchre was industriously concealed, it seems extremely strange, that this historian should so exactly particularise the place where he was buried. As to the passage in Jude, ver. 9 we will shew, when we come thither, that it has no sort of reference to the buried body of Moses, as has been generally understood, and strangely misinterpreted. In the mean time, we refer to the Bibliotheque Raisonnee, tom. 31: art. 1. Zach. ch. 3 and Saurin's 70th Dissertation.