So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
Ver. 5. So Moses the servant of the Lord died.] It was no more between God and Moses, but Go up and die; he changed indeed his place, but not his company; death was to him but the daybreak of eternal brightness.
According to the word of the Lord.] Heb., Upon the mouth of the Lord. Hence Cornelius a Lapide saith he heard one preach, that Moses died kissed by God. The Jewish doctors so expound this text, as though God did indeed take away his soul with a kiss (the loving mother we have seen kiss the child, and then lay it down to sleep); and so of their 903 kinds of death, this they say is the easiest. a God bade Moses go lie down and sleep, Deu 31:16 and he accordingly went to bed, when his Father bade.
a Maimonid.