And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping [and] mourning for Moses were ended.
Ver. 8. And the children of Israel wept.] And were ready to wish, likely, as the Romans did for Augustus, that either he had never been born, or never died.
Thirty days.] As before they had done for Aaron. Num 20:29 The Jewish doctors tell us that Moses was born on the seventh day of the month Adar (which answereth to our February), and that on the seventh day of the same month Adar he was taken out of the world, being exactly 120 years old. One third part of his days he spent in Egypt, another in Midian, and the last in conducting this people to the borders of Canaan, as Josephus a well observeth. The Jews to this day keep a solemn fast on the seventh of Adar, in remembrance of his death.
a Antiq., lib. iv. ad fin.