Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ulangan 2:8

בערבה, “another place in the same desert known as Aravah. It is referred to again in our portion in chapter 2,8: 'ונעבור....מדרך הערבה מאילת ומעציון גבר וגו; which location precisely was this? The one opposite the reeds, the great desert of Paran which commences at a place known as Eytam. This is why the Torah wrote (Numbers 33,6) ויחנו באיתם אשר בקצה המדבר, “they encamped at Eytam which is at the edge of the desert.” Now we are told that this was also extending to the boundary of the land of Moav. We have proof of this in Deut. 2,8, as well as in Deut. 8,2. The place also appears in Ezekiel 20,35 as מדבר העמים, “desert of nations.” Several nations had a border touching the edge of this desert. This is why sometimes it appears as מדבר שור, or ,מדבר קדמות or מדבר מואב

וילך אל ארץ מפני יעקב אחיו, “he went to a (different) country on account of his brother Yaakov.” The plain meaning of the verse is that Esau went to the land of Seir which was his real home at that time, just as the Torah had mentioned already in Genesis 33,16: “Esau returned on that day on his way to Seir.” We have independent support for the fact that Esau resided in Seir in 36,8: “Esau resided in the mountain of Seir.” Ibn Ezra comments on this that this mountain is adjacent to the land of Israel as the Torah reports in Deut. 2,8: “we by-passed our brothers the sons of Esau who reside in Seir.” We also have Deut. 1,2 where Moses speaks of “eleven days march from Mount Chorev by way of Mount Seir.” This mountain is not identical with the country in which the Edomites live in nowadays, i.e. the land of Greece.

V. 24. מארנון עד יבק, vom Arnon bis zum Jabbok im Norden und dem Gebiete der בני עמון im Osten. כי עז גבול בני עמון: wie gleich weiter entwickelt wird, durften Jisraels Söhne das Gebiet von Cheschbon, das ursprünglich zu Moab gehörte, dem gegenüber jede Feindseligkeit (Dewarim 2, 8) untersagt war, nur deshalb erobern, weil es zuvor der Macht Sichons erlegen und in dessen Besitz gekommen war. In demselben Verhältnis stand das Gebiet der Söhne Ammon zu Israel (daselbst 2, 19). So lange und so weit es Ammon gehörte, war es für Jisrael unantastbar; Sichon hat auch das ostwärts liegende Gebiet erobern wollen, und wäre dies geschehen, so wäre jetzt auch dieses in den Besitz Israels übergegangen, allein עז גבול בני עמון, Ammon widerstand dort Sichon, Sichon konnte es nicht erobern, deshalb blieb es auch für Jisrael unantastbar (siehe unten zu V. 30).