3:26. cross at me. This is not the usual word for anger. It occurs only here in the Torah. It puns on the preceding verse: Moses says, “Let me cross (Hebrew )” to the land that is “across () the Jordan.” And then God is cross () and says “you shall not cross ().” The pun (in English and in Hebrew) conveys irony as well as the idea that divine punishment in the Bible is often made to fit the crime.
