And they went up into Mount Hor... — Some would render to the summit of the mountain, and regard these words as equivalent to those which occur in the following verse, “the top of the mount;” but the same words occur in the fourth verse of the following chapter, where they cannot be thus understood.
In the sight of all the congregation. — The place where the people encamped is called Moseroth in Numbers 33:30, and Mosera in Deuteronomy 10:6.