Moses’ Prayer to Evade Death

Deuteronomy Rabbah 11:10

5th–10th Century

Moses said to God: Master of the Universe! You know full well how much toil and pain I bore for the sake of Israel until they would believe in Your name, how much grief I suffered on their account! [ . . . ] But I thought, just as I have beheld them in their distress, so shall I behold them in their good fortune. And now that Israel’s good fortune…

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In Deuteronomy Rabbah, Moses cites the law requiring laborers to be paid the same day (Deuteronomy 24:15); he argues that God should repay him for his forty years leading the Israelites by allowing him to enter the land.

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