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https://tikvahfund.org/course/deuteronomy-the-last-speech-of-moses/
Deut 34:6b ... and no one knows his burial place to this day.
Jude 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Moses was in a sense fully Egyptian, yet his life testifies to a philosophy diametrically opposed to the Egyptian world view. The Pharaohs had their bodies mummified and gloriously entombed, and passed their name "Pharaoh" on to their progeny and propagated history centered on themselves, as a means to eternal life. Moses did the opposite. Deuteronomy consists mostly of three of his speeches combined and presented as his last speech. In it he warns his people repeatedly of the consequences of turning to idol worship, such as worshiping Moses himself via monuments or hagiography. In other words of returning to the security of Egyptian mores and away from the fearful freedom of worshiping God alone.