And the Lord spake unto Moses the selfsame day,.... On which he finished the reading of the law, and the above song, which was the seventh of Adar or February; according to the Targum of Jonathan, the day he died on; according to the Egyptian Calendar , it was the sixteenth of that month, see De 34:5;saying; as follows.
Apud Ludolf. Lex. Ethiop. p.