Comentários de Citação sobre Números 26:43

ואם לא תשמעו לי, “and if you do not listen to Me, etc.” The Torah refers to the people not heeding the instruction to study Torah; it goes on to list a succession of seven different sins, each progressively more serious than the preceding one. The words ולא תעשון, “and you will not perform,” are a direct result of your failing to study Torah. The next sin which results from the previous one is that you will “despise My statutes.” The reason for this is that you do not know he reasons behind this legislation. Having reached the stage of rejecting part of My laws you will also find fault with My משפטים, social legislation, feeling revolted by them. Your negative attitude will include both such legislation involving stealing and robbery as well as regulations governing with whom you may have sexual intercourse. You, in common with the Gentiles, will find such legislation burdensome, often running counter to your natural instincts, especially when people whom you believe you love are forbidden to you as marriage partners. The Torah is aware of the impact of this legislation and this is why in verse 43, at the end of the paragraph, it repeats once more that your failure to observe these commandments is the principal cause of all the disasters predicted in this chapter.
When the Torah speaks about לבלתי עשות את כל מצותי, “not to perform all My commandments” (verse 15), this is not a repetition but means that not only will you not observe My commandments but you will try to prevent others from performing them, i.e. the words mean: ”so that they will not be performed.” The words: “all My commandments,” mean that you have reached the stage when you deny the validity of any of My laws. This accounts for the sixth of the seven sins we said are listed in the introduction to the warning of retributive action by G’d. Finally, the seventh sin is described as להפרכם את בריתי, “to breach My covenant,” i.e. you deny the essential tenets of Judaism. The verses 14-15 are a model lesson of the Talmudic axiom that “one sin brings another sin in its wake.”

When you review this whole paragraph starting with the words ואם לא תשמעו in verse 14 until the conclusion of verse 43, you will find that it contains 390 words. This is the total number of years that the tribes sinned in the land of Israel prior to heir being exiled. The period commenced with the declaration in Samuel II 20,1: “we do not have a share in David nor a common inheritance with the son of Yishai.” [This was Sheva ben Bichri’s call to rebellion against the Kingdom of David and occurred during the last years of David’s reign. Ed.] You will find that in Chronicles I 16,16 the word יצחק in the reference to ושבועתו ליצחק, is spelled with the letter ש instead of the letter צ, thus hinting at 390 years after which that oath that the land of Canaan would belong to the descendants of Yitzchak might expire. [The commonly accepted text of the Bible does not show that letter ש, though I have found that in Cassel’s version of comparative spellings in the Bible it is given as an alternate spelling. Ed.] It is assumed that G’d had sworn to Yitzchak that if his descendants would not sin for more than 390 years He would not decree exile for them. This is also alluded to in Ezekiel 4,5-6: “and I will impose upon you 390 days (years), corresponding to the days of their guilt; and so you shall bear the guilt for the House of Israel. When you have completed these, you shall lie another forty years on your right side, and bear the guilt of the House of Yehudah. One day for each year I impose upon you.”