Deuteronomy chapter 33 Moses' final blessing on Israel. This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death. He said, The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Sira upon us. He shone forth from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones with flaming fire at his right hand. Yes, he loved his people. All his holy ones were in his hand, so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you. When Moses commanded us a law as a possession for the assembly of Jacob, thus the Lord became king and just sheroon. When the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together, let Reuben live and not die, but let his men be few. And this he said of Judah, hear, O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him into his people with your hands content for him and be a help against his adversaries. And of Levi he said, Give to Levi your Thumen and your Urim to your godly one whom you tested at Massa, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Mareba, who said of his father and mother, I regard them not. He disowned his brothers and ignored his children, for they observed your word and kept your covenant. They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you and hold burnt offerings on your altar. Bless, O Lord, his substance and accept the work of his hands. Crush the loins of his adversaries of those who hate him, that they rise not again. Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord dwells in safety. The high God surrounds him all day long and dwells between his shoulders. And of Joseph he said, Blessed by the Lord be his land, by the choicest gifts of heaven above and of the deep that crouches beneath, with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months, with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills, with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the paid of him who is prince among his brothers. A firstborn bull he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice Zebulun, and you're going out, and Issachar in your tents. They shall call peoples to their mountain. There they offer right sacrifices, for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand. And of God he said, Blessed be he who enlarges God, God crouches like a lion, he tears off arm and scalp, he chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved, and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the Lord and his judgments for Israel. And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan. And of Naftali he said, O Naftali, sated with favor and full of the blessing of the Lord, possess the lake in the south. And of Asher he said, Most blessed of sons be Asher, let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil. Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days so shall your strength be. There is none like God, O Jesheron, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies and His majesty. The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms, and he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy! So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine whose heavens dropped down due. Happy are you, O Israel, who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your triumph, your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs. Deuteronomy 34 verses 1-12, The death of Moses. Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Naboo to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naftali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Nageb and the plain, that is the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zohar, and the Lord said to him, This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, I will give it to your offspring, I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there. So Moses, a servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Bethpure, but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated, and the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab 30 days, then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended, and Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him, so the people of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses, and there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel, like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel. Luke 20 verses 27-47 Sadducees Ask About The Resurrection There came to him some Sadducees, those who denied that there is a resurrection, and they asked him a question saying, Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. Now there were seven brothers, the first took a wife and died without children, and the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died, afterward the woman also died, in the resurrection therefore whose wife will the woman be, for the seven had her as a wife. And Jesus said to them, The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and our sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him. Then some of the scribes answered, Teacher you have spoken well, for they no longer dared to ask him any question. Whose son is the Christ? But he said to them, How can they say that the Christ is David's son, for David himself says in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son? Beware of the scribes. And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and love greetings in the marketplaces, in the best seats in the synagogues, in the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers, they will receive the greater condemnation. Psalm 68 verses 21 through 27. But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. The Lord said, I will bring them back from Bishon, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe. Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King into the sanctuary, the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines. Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you, who are of Israel's fountain. There is Benjamin, the least of them in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throne, and the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Neftali.
