The interpretation timeline

Num 33:31

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:31 · Douay-Rheims

“And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“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.”

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.