The faithfulne of Moses in the office that had been entrusted to him was now to be put to the test. It was to be revealed whether he loved his own …

Shout ... cry ... sing. —The Hebrew verb is the same in all three clauses. Translate: It is not the voice of those who cry for…

And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of …

And he said
Not Joshua, as Saadiah Gaon thinks, but Moses, in answer to what Joshua had said:

What a change it is, to come down from the mount of communion with God, to converse with a wicked world. In God we see nothing but what is pure and…