And the Lord spake unto Moses the selfsame day,.... On which he finished the reading of the law, and the above song, which was the seventh of Adar or February; according to the Targum of Jonathan, the day he died on; according to the Egyptian Calendar a, it was the sixteenth of that month, see Deuteronomy 34:5;
saying; as follows.
a Apud Ludolf. Lex. Ethiop. p. 537.