Números 21:20

20 y de Bamot al valle que está en la región de Moab, hasta la cumbre del monte Pisgá, desde donde puede verse el desierto de 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 que el gobernante cavó con su cetroy que el noble abrió con su vara!»Desde el desierto se dirigieron a Matana;
19 de Matana a Najaliel, de Najaliel a Bamot,
20 y de Bamot al valle que está en la región de Moab, hasta la cumbre del monte Pisgá, desde donde puede verse el desierto de Jesimón.
21 Israel envió emisarios a Sijón, rey de los amorreos, con este mensaje:
22 «Te pido que nos dejes pasar por tus dominios. Te prometo que no entraremos en ningún campo ni viña, ni beberemos agua de ningún pozo. Nos limitaremos a pasar por el camino real, hasta que salgamos de tu territorio».
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