The interpretation timeline

Num 33:37

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:37 · Douay-Rheims

“And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Her, in the uttermost borders of the land of Edom.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“They encamped at Mt. Or [Hor], which means "mountains." For one comes to the mount of God so that he may himself become a fruitful mountain and a massive mountain or because the person who always dwells on the mount of God is called a mountaineer.”

Source

Modern · 1953 →

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