Comentários de Citação sobre Números 26:64

Compare one in Genesis 46,9 ובני ראובן חנוך ופלוא. Pelet and Phalu are identical, Eliav being the son of latter. We know this from Numbers 26,8. Seeing that the Torah previously had written in Numbers 14,35: במדבר הזה יתמו ושם ימותו, “in this desert they will be consumed, there they will die,” the Torah here explains why some of them died as the result of other specific occurrences, not just the sin of the spies. These people were quite numerous, including the twenty four thousand who died during the last year of the wanderings at Shittim as a result of sleeping with Moabite women and having worshipped the deity, Baal Peor of those women. Not a single one of the adult males who had left Egypt and who were alive during that debacle survived the march through the desert. (Numbers 26,64)

“And Moses heard the people weeping by their families, each at the entrance of his tent.” For one cannot say that families gathered together in groups and wept, since it says each at the entrance of his tent. Rather, certainly [they were weeping] about matters of their families. And the anger of the Lord was kindled, and in Moses’ eyes it was bad. Specifically now [it was bad in Moses’ eyes], but before that it was bad only in the ears of the Lord, because Moses did not understand their intention. And regarding what it says, we remember [which refers to] the past, and that we would/will eat [nochal] which implies the future, this is what they said: that whenever we said in the past Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt, at that time we remembered the fish that we will eat in the future when we arrive there. And regarding what it says free from the commandments, this will be explained, God willing, later in Parashat Pinchas (26:64), that they said this about tithes and offerings.

In order to demonstrate that the sin of the golden calf had finally been forgiven and all the tribes are included in the שבטי י-ה, tribes of G’d,” all of these tribes deserve that the Shechinah provide a benevolent presence in their midst. On the other hand, the words: לאלה תחלק הארץ, mean that all these who had sinned and died in the desert. [Although they were originally slated to each have a share in the land, that share in various forms would now be given to their offspring, the next generation.] In verse 64 the Torah makes clear by again using the word אלה, that none of the people participating in this census had participated in the original census listed at the beginning of the Book of Numbers. Here the word אלה clearly means that these people had not had a share in the sin of the golden calf just as the Levites to whom the word אלה is applied in verse 57 had not had a part in the sin of the golden calf.