And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.
And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan.
And they journey from Moseroth, and encamp in Bene-Jaakan;
And they removed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-Jaakan.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Deuteronomy 10:6The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
leads to
At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land…
And at Mount Hor, near the border of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
Through
1 Chronicles 1:43These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.
leads to
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Through
Genesis 36:27These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
leads to
The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of Edom.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches3
The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor. His city was named Dinhabah.
These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
Voices1
Next they come to Banaim [Bene-jaakan], which means "springs" or "filterings," that is, where one draws water from the springs of divine words until one filters them by drinking.… Thus a person filters the word of God when he does not omit even the least commandment, indeed when he gains the understanding that not even one iota or one dot in the word of God is insignificant.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON NUMBERS 27:12, 253patristic
