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Ramban on Numbers 1:1/רמב"ן על במדבר א׳:א׳
אבְּמִדְבַּר סִינַי – בַּעֲבוּר שֶׁהִפְסִיק בְּמִצְוֹת הַשְּׁמִטָּה וְהַיּוֹבֵל, שֶׁהָיוּ בְּהַר סִינַי, חָזַר וְאָמַר כָּאן שֶׁהָיָה הַדִּבּוּר הַזֶּה בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, כְּכָל הַמִּצְווֹת אֲשֶׁר הִזְכִּיר מִתְּחִלַּת סֵפֶר וַיִּקְרָא. וְכֵן יִהְיוּ כֻּלָּם מִכָּאן וָאֵילָךְ בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד. כִּי מֵעֵת שֶׁהוּקַם הַמִּשְׁכָּן וַיִּקְרָא אֵלָיו הַשֵּׁם מֵאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, לֹא נִדְבַּר לוֹ אֶלָּא מִשָּׁם. וְהִזְכִּיר כָּאן בְּמִדְבַּר סִינַי לְהַגִּיד שֶׁלֹּא נָסְעוּ מִשָּׁם בְּעֵת שֶׁנִּמְנוּ, כִּי הַמִּנְיָן הַשֵּׁנִי הָיָה בְּעַרְבוֹת מוֹאָב, וְהַדִּבּוּר בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד:
1AND THE ETERNAL SPOKE UNTO MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI, IN THE TENT OF MEETING. Because He had interrupted with the commandments about the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee, of which He said that they were spoken in Mount Sinai12 [in contrast to all the other commandments in the Book of Leviticus, which, as mentioned at the beginning of that book, G-d told Moses from the Tent of Meeting], He stated here again that this communication was given from the Tent of Meeting, as were all the communications which He had mentioned since the beginning of the Book of Leviticus. And all of them from now onwards [were said to Moses] from the Tent of Meeting, for since the time that the Tabernacle was set up and G-d called him [Moses] from the Tent of Meeting,13, 1:1. He only communicated with him from there.Scripture mentions here in the wilderness of Sinai in order to tell us that they did not travel away from there until they were counted [the first time, as described here], for the second census14 was taken in the plains of Moab,15, Verse 3. but the [actual] communication was in the Tent of Meeting.