And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
And they journey from Punon, and encamp in Oboth;
And they removed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
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.
Voices1
Next they come to Oboth. Although we have not found an interpretation of this name, nonetheless we do not doubt that in this name as in all the others the logic of the progresses is preserved.
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.
The verses this one reaches1
Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
The walk1
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
Numbers 21:10Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
leads to
They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
