The interpretation timeline

Num 33:43

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

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Num 33:43 · Douay-Rheims

“And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

254

A.D.

Origen Patristic

c. A.D. 184–253

“Next they come to Oboth. Although we have not found an interpretation of this name, nonetheless we do not doubt that in this name as in all the others the logic of the progresses is preserved.”

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.