Moses also wrote of his own death
After this the Jew of Celsus, in his speech to those of his own people who have believed, says, as if to us (to keep to the part assigned to the Jew from the start): “What, then, drew you to him, unless it was that he foretold that after dying he would rise again?” (compare Matthew 16:21). This too, like what came before, will be turned against Moses in the same way. For we shall say to him: ‘What, then, drew you to him, unless it was that he wrote such things about his own death: “And Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, by the word of the Lord; and they buried him in the land of Moab, near the house of Phogor. And no one knows his burial to this day” (Deuteronomy 34:5–6)?’
For just as the Jew makes it a charge that Jesus foretold that after dying he would rise again, so the man who argues the like about Moses will reply to the one who says this that Moses too wrote (for Deuteronomy also is his) that “no one knows his burial to this day” (Deuteronomy 34:6), dignifying and exalting even his burial as unknown to the human race.
Greek
Μετὰ ταῦτά. φησι πρὸς ἡμᾶς δῆθεν (ἵνα τηρήσω τὸ ἀπ᾿ ἀρχῆς τῷ Ἰουδαίῳ προτεθὲν) ὁ τοῦ Κέλσου Ἰουδαῖος ἐν τῷ πρὸς τοὺς πολίτας ἑαυτοῦ λόγῳ πιστεύσαντας· τίνι οὖν προσήχθητε ἢ διότι προεῖπεν, ὡς ἀποθανὼν ἀναστήσεται; καὶ τοῦτο δ᾿ εἰς τὸ περὶ Μωϋσέως ὁμοίως τοῖς προτέροις κοινοποιηθήσεται. φήσομεν γὰρ πρὸς αὐτόν· τίνι οὖν προσήχθητε ἢ διότι ἀνέγραψε περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ τελευτῆς τοιαῦτα· „καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐκεῖ Μωϋσῆς οἰκέτης κυρίου ἐν γῇ Μωὰβ διὰ ῥήματος κυρίου· καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν ἐν γῇ Μωάβ, ἐγγὺς οἴκου Φογώρ. Καὶ οὐδεὶς οἶδε τὴν ταφὴν αὐτοῦ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης" Ὡς γὰρ διαβάλλει ὁ Ἰουδαῖος ὅτι προεῖπεν, ὡς ἀποθανὼν ἀναστήσεται, πρὸς τὸν λέγοντα ταῦτα ὁ περὶ Μωϋσέως τὸ ὅμοιον φάσκων ἐρεῖ ὅτι [καὶ Μωϋσῆς ἀνέγραψενμδαση;αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐστι καὶ τὸ Δευτερονόμιον] ὅτι θυοτ;Οὐδεὶς οἶδε τὴν ταφὴν αὐτοῦ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης," σεμνύνων καὶ ἐπαίρων καὶ τὴν ταφὴν αὐτοῦ ὡς οὐκ ἐγνωσμένην ἀνθρώπων γένει.