And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Ver. 1. And the Lord spake.] Yielding to the people's importunity, and winking at their infidelity; for he had before spied out the land for them, Eze 20:6 and searched it out, Deu 1:33 but that satisfied them not; seeing was, with them, believing. See Deuteronomy 1:22 .