See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

One day Moses led his flock to Mount Horeb (Exodus 3) usually identified with Mount Sinai — a mountain that was thought in the Middle Ages to be located on the Sinai Peninsula. He therefore assembled the tribes and delivered to them a parting address which is taken to form the Book of Deuteronomy. God Himself buried him in an unknown grave in a valley in the land of Moab over against Bethpeor (Deut.

"Moses our Teacher/Rabbi") he is the most important prophet in Judaism; he is also an important prophet in Christianity and Islam as well as a number of other faiths. Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE;Jerome gives 1592 and UsMosesr 1619. According to the Book of Exodus Moses was born in a time when his people the Children of Israel were increasing in numbers and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.