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Ramban on Numbers 21:16/רמב"ן על במדבר כ״א:ט״ז
אוְטַעַם וּמִשָּׁם בְּאֵרָה יַחְזֹר לְמַעְלָה (במדבר כ״א:י״ד), לוֹמַר כִּי חָנוּ מֵעֵבֶר אַרְנוֹן, וּמִשָּׁם נָסְעוּ וְהִקִּיפוּ בְּאֵרָה, כִּי לֹא נִכְנְסוּ בְּאַרְנוֹן וּמִמֶּנּוּ וָהָלְאָה, כִּי הוּא גְּבוּל מוֹאָב הַנִּשְׁאָר. וְקוֹרֵא בְּכָאן שֵׁם הַמָּקוֹם עַל שֵׁם הַנֵּס, וְאֵין שְׁמוֹ כֵּן בַּמַּסָּעִים:
1And from thence to B’eir,273 The meaning of this is connected with the previous [Verse 13], saying that they pitched on the other side of the Arnon, and from there they set forth on their journey and went round about B’eir since they did not enter the Arnon or any [area] beyond it, because it continued [to be] the border of Moab. Scripture called here the name of the place [“B’eir”, which means “a well”] on account of the miracle274 [which happened there], but in the [section enumerating the stages of their] journeys [in the wilderness] it is not called by that name.275