land of Canaan; it should be rendered, not "because", but "that", for this is the thing sworn to, or the matter of the oath: and my miracles which I did in Egypt; by the hand of Moses, both before them, when he was sent to them, as a proof of his divine mission, and before Pharaoh and all his court, Exo 7:10 , inflicting plagues upon him and his people, Exo 7:20 , and in the wilderness; in raining manna from heaven about their tents, Exo 16:14 ; sending them quails, Exo 16:13 ; and giving them water out of the rock, Exo 17:6 , and have tempted me now these ten times; which the Jews understand precisely and exactly of such a number, and which they reckon thus (w); twice at the sea, Exo 14:11 ; twice concerning water, Exo 15:23 ; twice about manna, Exo 16:2 ; twice about quails, Exo 16:12 ; once by the calf, Exo 32:1 ; and once in the wilderness of Paran, Num 14:1 , which last and tenth was the present temptation: these are reckoned a little otherwise elsewhere (x); but perhaps it may be better, with Aben Ezra, to interpret it of many times, a certain number being put for an uncertain, they having frequently tempted the Lord: and have not hearkened to my voice; neither to his word of promise, nor to his word of command, and particularly his late order to go up and possess the land, Deu 1:21 . (w) T. Bab. Eracin, fol. 15. 1. Bartenora in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 4. Jarchi in loc. (x) Maimon. in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 4.