The interpretation timeline

Num 33:16

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:16 · Douay-Rheims

“But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“From there they come to the Tombs of Lust [Kibroth-hattavah]. What are the Tombs of Lust? Doubtless it is where lusts are buried and covered over, where all desire is quenched and the flesh no longer lusts against the spirit, since it has been put to death by the death of Christ.”

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.