הנועדים עלי. שאמרו לרגום באבנים עבדי השם בעבור שאמרו כבוד השם: THAT ARE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST ME. For they wanted to stone62Verse 10. the servants of God63Caleb and Joshua. God considers an attack on His servants as an attack on God Himself. because they spoke of God’s glory.64Verses 7-9.
במדבר הזה. יתום קץ כל אחד ששם קץ כל אחד: IN THIS WILDERNESS. The time set for each one shall come to an end, for God has set a specific time for everyone’s death.65The Hebrew verse reads, ba-midbar ha-zeh yittamu (in this wilderness they shall be consumed). Ba-midbar ha-zeh yittamu literally means, in this wilderness they shall be finished. I.E. interprets this to mean their time shall be finished; that is, the time allotted for their lives shall come to an end.
ושם ימתו. כלם קרוב מהקץ: AND THERE THEY SHALL DIE. All of them, close to the time set by God.66The days of the entire generation shall be completed close to the forty-year period set by God for their sojourn in the desert. In others words, the entire generation shall die in about forty years.