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Num 33:14

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:14 · Douay-Rheims
“And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
254
A.D.
Origen Patristic
c. A.D. 184–253
“Now Raphidin [Rephidim] means "praise of judgment." Praise most justly follows toils, but what is the praise of? Judgment, it says. Therefore the soul becomes worthy of praise when it judges rightly, discerns rightly, that is, when it judges all things spiritually and is itself judged by no one.”
Source
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.