Números 21:20

20 y de Bamot al valle que está en la tierra de Moab, en la cumbre del Pisga, que da al desierto.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Sheviith, fol. 38. 4.

Números 21:20 In-Context

18 El pozo que cavaron los jefes, que los nobles del pueblo hicieron con el cetro y con sus báculos. Y desde el desierto fueron a Mataná.

19 Y de Mataná a Nahaliel, y de Nahaliel a Bamot,

20 y de Bamot al valle que está en la tierra de Moab, en la cumbre del Pisga, que da al desierto.

21 Entonces Israel envió mensajeros a Sehón, rey de los amorreos, diciendo:

22 Déjame pasar por tu tierra. No nos desviaremos, ni por campos ni por viñedos, ni beberemos agua de pozo. Iremos por el camino real hasta que hayamos cruzado tus fronteras.