Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Bilangan 34:8

in the fortieth year. This interpretation is incorrect, because they came to Qadesh Barnea in the second year [: 19]. The phrase in the fortieth year actually modifies the phrase “Moshe spoke” [: 1]. Some people assert that Moshe died on the first of Sh e vaṭ. They claim that after the nation mourned over Moshe for a period of thirty days [cf. 34: 8], they remained there for approximately six more weeks [cf. Joshua 4: 19]. Their evidence is the phrase “that same day” [32: 48] — that is to say, they maintain that Moshe recounted this entire book to all Israel on a single day, and then died. This evidence is invalid, however, because “that same day” refers only to the recitation of the song. Besides, Scripture says elsewhere “you are soon [literally: today] to pass over the Jordan” [9: 1].

The land of the Givlites and the entire Lebanon eastward foward the rising sun. And on the eastern border, the northern end remained unconquered, [including] the entire Lebanon, from Baal-gad, to the end of the border; and in the width from east to west to Levo-Chamos. This is the entire northern border, for Levo-Chamos is at the northwestern corner, as stated in Parshas “These are the journeys.”⁶Bamidbar 34:7,8.

ממדבר צין עד רחוב לבא חמת, “from the desert of Tzin in the south, as far north as the approaches to Chamat.” They crossed the country diagonally from south to North, and from North to South. The verses that we read in Parshat Massey confirms this.

עד תאות means UNTO THE ENDS — The word is connected with the verbs in (Numbers 36:10) “And ye shall mark out the ends (והתאויתם) for the east border”, and (Numbers 5:8) “you shall mark out the ends (תתאו) unto the entrance of Hamath”.