unto thy people Better thy father's folk, as always in this phrase. The word, -am, originally meant this, but in Heb. is usually widened to people, while in Ar. it = -father's brother" and -father's brother's children" (Driver). The whole phrase is frequent in P, Genesis 25:8; Genesis 35:29; Numbers 20:24; Numbers 20:26, etc., and is found nowhere else.

on Hor, the mountain] Always so in P; cp. Numbers 20:22-29; Numbers 21:4; Numbers 33:37-41. Contr. above Deuteronomy 10:6 (E).

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