And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
and they journey from Tarah, and encamp in Mithcah.
And they removed from Terah, and encamped in Mithcah.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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Next they come to Matheca [Mithkah], which means "new death." What is the new death? When we die with Christ so that we may live with him.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12, 253patristic
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
