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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 1:2/אבן עזרא על דברים א׳:ב׳
אאחד עשר יום. הטעם שדבר אלה הדברים באותם י״א יום מחורב. שהלכו מחורב עד קדש ברנע וכבר הגדתי לך כי מקדש ברנע הלכו המרגלי' ואחר שנשבע השם שלא יכנסו לארץ לא התחדש' מצו' רק בשנת הארבעים כי כן מצאנו והעד שאמר באר את התורה הזאת הנה באר התורה שאמר בין פארן ובין תפל כי רוב המצות הם בספר הזה וכן פי' ככל אשר צוה ה' אותו אליהם בעבר הירדן במדבר בערבה ואם תבין סוד (השרים) [צ״ל השנים] עשר גם ויכתוב משה והכנעני אז בארץ בהר ה' יראה גם והנה ערשו ערש ברזל תכיר האמת:
1IT IS ELEVEN DAYS’ JOURNEY. This means that Moses spoke these things17 in those eleven days. FROM HOREB. That they went from Horeb to Kadeshbarnea. I have already told18 you that the spies went out from Kadesh-barnea. After God swore that they would not enter the land,19 no new commandment was given to them.20 No new commandment was revealed until the fortieth year. We find the aforementioned to be so.21 Took Moses upon him to expound this law (v. 5) is proof of this. Moses expounded the laws22 refers to. which he had stated between Paran and Tophel, for most of the commandments are in this book.23 According unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them (v. 3), refers to the precepts given beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah (v. 1).24 (v. 3) is to be interpreted as: Moses spoke… according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, and in all the other places mentioned earlier in the eleven days’ journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea. If you understand the secret of the twelve25 and also that of So Moses wrote (Deut. 31:22);26 And the Canaanite was then in the Land (Gen. 12:6);27 In the mount where the Lord is seen (Gen. 22:14);28. Hence this verse was inserted in the Torah at a later date. and behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron (Deut. 3:11);29 then you will recognize the truth.30