Numbers 36 Footnotes

36:13 The concluding verse of this book summarizes its content, and in particular, the last section in which the geographical setting is the plains of Moab on the east side of the Jordan River, opposite Jericho (26:3; 33:50; 35:1; see 22:1). Moses’s role as God’s appointed prophetic spokesman is reiterated in the use of the phrase “through Moses” (lit “which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel”). There, on the threshold of the promised land, the nation was positioned both geographically and spiritually—they had recently done as the Lord commanded—to claim their divine inheritance.