Numbers 27:12-14

The command to Moses to view the land from a mountain is not obeyed till Deuteronomy 34 (P). This long postponement might seem strange. But it must be remembered that before the greater part of Numbers 28-36 was added as an enlargement of P by later hands the book of Deut., which is represented, for the most part, as Moses" farewell address, stood in closer proximity to the present passage. When the compilation of the documents took place, an editor seems to have felt that the interval between the command and the fulfilment was unduly long, and therefore inserted the command a second time in Deuteronomy 32:48-52, which is a repetition of the present passage in an expanded form.