Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Bilangan 10:12

AND HE SHONE FORTH FROM SEIR UNTO THEM. For after they journeyed from Sinai the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran,¹⁹Numbers 10:12. and from there Moses sent the spies, as it is said, And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran.²⁰Ibid., 13:3. As a result of the spies’ report, the people were banished,²¹Yerushalmi Taanith III, 4. The term “banished” suggests a form of censure and excommunication, when the Divine utterance was not communicated to Moses. and there was no Divine communication to Moses until they came to Seir,²²Deuteronomy 2:1-2. at the border of the children of Esau, at the end of the forty years, as it is said there, For the Eternal thy G-d hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the Eternal thy G-d hath been with thee.²³Ibid., Verse 7. Now, at the time, when they arrived at Seir, the Eternal was again to them an everlasting light and the days of their mourning were ended,²⁴Isaiah 60:20. and He commanded them to be heedful of Ammon and Moab [not to take their lands]. At that time He said that they should begin to possess their land²⁵Above, 2:31. the land of Sihon and Og, the two great Amorite kings.

HE BEAMED FROM MOUNT PARAN — He regarded them and placed their needs in the light of His countenance emanating from Mount Paran. The sense thereof is as follows: The beginning of their entry into the great wilderness was from Paran, as it is said, And the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.¹⁹Numbers 10:12. Then G-d shone forth upon them to see what they needed in the great and dreadful wilderness.²⁶Ibid., 8:15. This expression is similar to, and Thou didst shine forth upon the counsel of the wicked,²⁷Job 10:3. meaning that You have observed and seen with Your great light all their secret thoughts.

AND AFTERWARD THE PEOPLE JOURNEYED FROM HATZEROTH, AND PITCHED IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN. The reason [why Scripture mentions the wilderness] is to say that when they travelled from Hatzeroth they did not go from one wilderness to another, as they did on their first journey when they set forth from the wilderness of Sinai and pitched in the wilderness of Paran,³⁰³Above, 10:12. for [now] they set forth from Hatzeroth which is in the wilderness of Paran, and pitched in another place in that very same wilderness. This [place was called] Kadesh-barnea, for [although its name is not given here], it is from there that the spies [mentioned in the next section of the Torah] were sent, as is said in another place, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh,³⁰⁴Further, 13:26. and so also it is written, and we came to Kadesh-barnea;³⁰⁵Deuteronomy 1:19. And ye came unto me every one of you, and said: Let us send men before us.³⁰⁶Ibid., Verse 22. Now Scripture does not say here: “and they journeyed from Hatzeroth, and pitched in Kadesh-barnea,” for perhaps there were many [stages in their] journey between them [i.e., these two places], and this is not now the place to mention them. However, it mentioned [that they pitched] in the wilderness of Paran,³⁰³Above, 10:12. in order to inform us that this Kadesh [from where the spies were sent] is the Kadesh-barnea which is in the wilderness of Paran, not the Kadesh which is in the wilderness of Sin³⁰⁷Further, 20:1. where the affair of the waters of Meribah³⁰⁸Ibid., Verse 13. took place in the fortieth year [of the Israelites’ stay in the wilderness].
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