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Freud's hypothesis that Moses was killed during a desert rebellion was based partially on the Biblical text.
“… those who felt themselves kept in tutelage, or who felt dispossessed, revolted and threw off the burden of a religion that had been forced on them … the savage Semites took their destiny into their own hands and did away with their tyrant.
“… The account of the ‘wandering in the wilderness’—which might stand for the time of Moses’ rule— describes a series of grave revolts against his authority which, by Jahve's command, were suppressed with savage chastisement. It is easy to imagine that one of these revolts came to another end than the text admits.” 1)
Let us consider the textual account of the last of the many rebellions which are mentioned:
“Then came the children of Israel … into the desert of Zin. …
“And there was no Water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
“And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord unto this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
“And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomengranates; neither is there any water to drink.
“And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,