Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died—twenty in Egypt, sixty in Midian, forty in the desert with exceedingly great exaltation in prophethood, in prayer, in fasting. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. His eye was not dim—so in the case of his fathers, the Righteous of the world. His eye was not dim, for he was prepared for the recording of the law, and to see the four quarters of the world. Nor his natural force abated, for he was vested with the Form which Adam cast off in the Garden of Eden; and his face shone up to the day of his death.

‘And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin (‘or), and clothed them.’ In R. Meir’s Torah it was found written, ‘Garments of light (or)’: this refers to Adam’s garments, which were like a torch [shedding radiance], broad at the bottom and narrow at the top. Isaac the Elder said: “They were as smooth as a finger-nail and as beautiful as a jewel.” R. Johanan said: “They were like the fine linen garments which come from Bethshean, garments of skin meaning those that are nearest to the skin.” R. Eleazar said: “They were of goats’ skin.” R. Joshua said: “Of hares’ skin.” R. Jose b. R. Hanina said: “It was a garment made of skin with its wool.” Resh Lakish said: “It was of Circassian wool, and these were used [later] by first-born children.” R. Samuel b. Nahman said: “[They were made from] the wool of camels and the wool of hares, garments of skin meaning those which are produced from the skin.” R. Levi said: “The Torah teaches you here a rule of worldly wisdom: spend according to your means on food; less than you can afford on clothing, but more than you can afford on a dwelling. Spend according to your means on food, as it is written, ‘Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat.’ Less than you can afford on clothing: ‘And the Lord God made... garments of skin, and clothed them.’ More than you can afford on a dwelling: for lo! They were but two, yet they dwelt in the whole world.”