Today's Favorite Verse: Deuteronomy 34:5-6

Today's Favorite Verse: Deuteronomy 34:5-6

"So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."

The footnote for sepulchre is for translated beings.

" And when Alma had done this he departed out of the land of Zarahemla, as if to go into the land of Melek. And it came to pass that he was never heard of more; as to his death or burial we know not of.

Behold, this we know, that he was a righteous man; and the saying went abroad in the church that he was taken up by the Spirit, or buried by the hand of the Lord, even as Moses. But behold, the scriptures saith the Lord took Moses unto himself; and we suppose that he has also received Alma in the spirit, unto himself; therefore, for this cause we know nothing concerning his death and burial."

(Alma 45:18-19)

Moses must have been translated, otherwise how would he have been able to appear with Elias on the mount and be transfigured with Jesus. Peter, James and John witnessed this and were charged not to speak of it until after Jesus' resurrection.

"And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him."

(Matthew 17:1-3)

He also appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland temple, April 3, 1836 along with the Savior, Elias, and Elijah.

"After this vision closed, the heavens were again opened unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the ten tribes from the land of the north."

(Doctrine and Covenants 110:11)

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