So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
So Moses the servant of the Lord, х `ebed (H5650) Yahweh (H3068)] - sometimes used to designate a worshipper of Yahweh (Ezra 5:11; Neb. 1:10; 6:21), but specially a minister or ambassador called of God, and commissioned to perform a particular service. This title - "the servant of the Lord" - was bestowed upon Moses as a distinguished honour (cf. Joshua 1:2, etc.), not only to enhance his dignity, but to impart authority and influence to his laws and institutions.
Died - after having governed the Israelites forty years.
According to the word of the Lord, х `al (H5921) piy (H6310) Yahweh (H3068)] - by the mouth of the Lord. (The Jewish rabbis render it. 'by the kiss of the Lord.') [Septuagint, dia reematos kuriou.] The unalterable decree of God was, that Moses should not be permitted, in consequence of his unbelief, to enter into the promised land of Canaan. And in this fact we have an instance that sin may be forgiven, and the sinner pardoned, so as to be received into the divine favour, while yet he may be doomed to suffer its temporal penalty (cf. 2 Samuel 12:13; 2 Chronicles 35:22-25).