Deuteronomy 34:6

6. And he buried him We understand the subject of the sentence to be Jehovah. It is true that although the verb is in the singular the passage might be rendered as it is in the Septuagint, ( εθαψαν αυτον ,) they buried him. Jehovah gave his servant this signal honour. The statement that follows, “But no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day,” would hardly be consistent with the idea that the people buried him. For in that case his grave must have been known. He whom Jehovah had known face to face was buried by him, not to keep the Israelites from superstitious reverence for his grave. Abraham’s sepulchre was known. Jacob had been brought up from Egypt with imposing pageant and buried. Joseph’s bones were then in camp on their way to the sepulchre. We nowhere read in the Hebrew records of any thing like idolatrous worship paid at any of the tombs of the patriarchs. The view of Kurtz is worth considering. He says, ( History of the Old Covenant, vol. iii, p. 495:) “If Jehovah would not suffer the body of Moses to be buried by men, it is natural to seek for a reason in the fact that he did not intend to leave him to corruption, but at the very time of his burial communicated some virtue by his own hand which saved the body from corruption, and prepared for the patriarch a transition into the same state of existence into which Enoch and Elijah were admitted without either death or burial. On account of the one sin at the water of strife at Kadesh, Moses was sentenced by the ruthless severity of the justice of God to pass under the same ban of death as the whole generation of those who despised the covenant and promise.… In the sight of the people the leader and lawgiver of the nation was visited with a punishment which must have convinced them far more strongly of the unsparing character of the judicial severity of God than the most powerful admonition could possibly have done; but at the same time, though punished, he received honour in their sight, that they might see the sun of mercy bursting through the storm of the judgments of God. As an example of justice Jehovah caused him to die before the people entered the land of rest and promise; but as an example of grace he prepared for him an entrance into another, as yet unknown, land of promise and of rest.”