Text -- Deuteronomy 32:50 (NET)

32:50 You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 32:50

¹ tn In the Hebrew text the forms translated “you will die…and join” are imperatives, but the actions in view cannot really be commanded. The imperative is used here in a rhetorical, emphatic manner to indicate the certainty of Moses’ death on the mountain. On the rhetorical use of the imperative see IBHS 572 §34.4c.

² tn Heb “be gathered to your people.” The same phrase occurs again later in this verse.

³ sn Mount Hor. See note on the name “Moserah” in Deut 10:6.