Números 21:20

20 Y de Bamot al valle que está en los campos de Moab, y a la cumbre de Pisga, que mira a Jesimón.

Números 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:20

And from Bamoth, [in] the valley
Or rather "to the valley", as the Targum of Onkelos, since Bamoth signifies high places; though, according to the Jerusalem Talmud F15, Bamoth, Baal, which seems to be the same place, was in a plain:

that is in the country of Moab;
the valley belonged to Moab, into which Israel came:

to the top of Pisgah;
not that the valley reached to the top, nor did the children of Israel go to the top of it, only Moses, but rather to the bottom, which indeed is meant; for it intends the beginning of it, where Pisgah, which was an high mountain near the plains of Moab, began, and which was properly the foot of it:

which looketh towards Jeshimon;
that is, Pisgah, as Jarchi rightly interprets it, which looked over a place called Jeshimon; and which signifies a wilderness, and is no other indeed than the wilderness of Kedemoth, ( Deuteronomy 2:26 ) for from thence the following messengers were sent.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Sheviith, fol. 38. 4.

Números 21:20 In-Context

18 Pozo, el cual cavaron los príncipes; lo cavaron los príncipes del pueblo, y el legislador, con sus bordones. Del desierto vinieron a Matana.
19 Y de Matana a Nahaliel; y de Nahaliel a Bamot.
20 Y de Bamot al valle que está en los campos de Moab, y a la cumbre de Pisga, que mira a Jesimón.
21 Y envió Israel embajadores a Sehón, rey de los amorreos, diciendo:
22 Pasaré por tu tierra; no nos apartaremos por los labrados, ni por las viñas; no beberemos las aguas de los pozos; por el camino real iremos, hasta que pasemos tu término.
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