Tafsiran Bilangan 19:1: Rav Hirsch & Abarbanel

Kap. 19. V. 1. וידבר וגו׳ (siehe zu Wajikra 11, 1 u. 13, 1). Diese Richtung des Gesetzesausspruchs an Mosche und Aharon bezeichnet die hohe Bedeutsamkeit des Gegenstandes für die theoretische Gesetzerkenntnis und die praktische Heranerziehung der Individuen zum Gesetze.

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 'This is the statute of the Torah...' until '...when the entire congregation of Israel comes to the Wilderness of Zin.' And there are questions to be asked here:

The first question is, if this commandment was from the laws of the priests and the Israelites were commanded regarding it at Mount Sinai, as stated by our Sages, and according to their acceptance on the first day of Nisan when the Tabernacle was erected, receiving ten crowns on that day, and it was on that day that the red heifer was burned, why is its commandment not mentioned except in this place, after the incident of Korah and his congregation, the complainers, and the rest of the narratives and commandments mentioned earlier?