Text: Psalm 106:32-33
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 4:21
Subject: Moses excluded from inheritance
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Deuteronomy 4:21 states that "the LORD was angry with me on account of you" (הִתְאַנַּף יְהוָה בִּי עַל דִּבְרֵיכֶם, hit'annaf YHWH bi 'al divreikhem) and swore that Moses would not cross the Jordan to enter the "good land" given as inheritance. Psalm 106:32-33 provides the liturgical retelling: "At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them; for they rebelled against His Spirit." Both texts link Moses's exclusion from the promised land to the people's sin, but Deuteronomy frames it as divine anger directed at Moses on Israel's behalf, while the psalm names Meribah as the specific location and adds that Moses "spoke rashly with his lips." Together, the texts present Moses's exclusion as a paradigm of how communal sin has consequences even for the faithful mediator.