Deuteronomy 10

6. Beeroth. “The fountains” (e.g., the fountains of Bene-Jaakan, R.V.). This and the next three verses form a parenthetical fragment, which seems introduced to illustrate the completeness of the Divine pardon. After Aaron’s sin, he had been permitted to administer the priesthood up to his death; and not only so, but when Aaron, in consequence of new transgressions (Numb. xx. 12), died in the wilderness, the high priesthood was continued in his son. Mosera was probably the place of encampment, at the base of Hor, from which Aaron ascended the mountain to die (Numb. xx. 22-29).

19 ye were strangers. The remembrance of past sufferings from the hand of man, instead of exciting revenge or misanthropy, ought to produce a tender sympathy with all the distressed. Even the “Christian” nations of to-day are slow to learn this lesson.