The interpretation timeline

Num 33:10

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:10 · Douay-Rheims
“But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“They do not enter the Red Sea, since entering it once was enough. Now they camp next to the sea, so that they look at the sea and regard its waves but in no way fear its motions and assaults.”
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.