According to the concluding chapter of Deuteronomy, Mount Nebo is the one on which the Hebrew prophet Moses had a vision of the Promised Land that God had destined for His Chosen People (Land that was forbidden to him to reach).

According to Jewish-Christian traditions, Moses was buried on this mountain by the same God, but the site remained unknown. The scholars continue to question whether the mountain currently known as Nebo is the same mountain referred to in the Torah.