(8) They heard the sound of God יהוה moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the Human and his wife hid from God יהוה among the trees of the garden.(9) God יהוה called out to the Human and said to him, “Where are you?”

...Rabbi Abahu opens “And they, to a person, transgressed the covenant” (Hosea 6:7). This is the first person, said the Kadosh Baruch Hu, the first person that I put into Gan Eden, and I commanded them and they transgressed my commands and I judged them according to exile and banishment, and I mourned for them, [saying] “How!?”I put them in Gan Eden, as it says “Hashem Elohim took the person and left them in Gan Eden” (Breishit 2:15), and commanded them, as it says “Hashem God commanded the person, saying….” (Breishit 2:16). And the person transgressed my commandments, as it says “And what about the tree that I commanded you about [did you eat from it?]...” (Breishit 3:11), and I judged them according to exile, as it says “[God] drove the person out…” (Breishit 3:24), and I judged the person according to banishment, as it says “Hashem banished them from Gan Eden” (Breishit 3:23), and I mourned them, crying “where”, as it says “[God] said to them ‘Where.’” (Breishit 3:9). “איכה” is written. Therefore only his son entered with him to the land of Israel, as it says “I brought you to the farmland” (Jeremiah 2:7) and commanded them, as it says “Command the Israelites” (Vayikra 24:2) and they transgressed my commandments, as it says “All of the Israelites have transgressed Your Torah” (Daniel 9:11), and I judged them according to exile, as it says “From my house, I will divorce them” (Hosea 9:15), and I judged them according to banishment, as it says “Banish them from my presence and let them go out” (Jeremiah 15:1), and I mourned them “How it dwells alone” (Lamentations 1:1).

(18) God יהוה said, “It is not good for the Human to be alone; I will make a fitting counterpart for him.”

(10) Moses heard the people weeping, every clan apart, at the entrance of each tent. יהוה was very angry, and Moses was distressed.(11) And Moses said to יהוה, “Why have You dealt ill with Your servant, and why have I not enjoyed Your favor, that You have laid the burden of all this people upon me?(12) Did I produce all these people, did I engender them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a caregiver carries an infant,’ to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers?(13) Where am I to get meat to give to all this people, when they whine before me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’(14) I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me.(15) If You would deal thus with me, kill me rather, I beg You, and let me see no more of my wretchedness!”(16) Then יהוה said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy of Israel’s elders of whom you have experience as elders and officers of the people, and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them take their place there with you.

(9) Thereupon I said to you, “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself.(10) Your God יהוה has multiplied you until you are today as numerous as the stars in the sky.—(11) May יהוה, the God of your ancestors, increase your numbers a thousandfold, and bless you as promised.—(12) How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!(13) Pick from each of your tribes candidates who are wise, discerning, and experienced, and I will appoint them as your heads.”(14) You answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”

(14)Your new moons and fixed seasonsFill Me with loathing;They are become a burden to Me,I cannot endure them.

(19)If, then, you agree and give heed,You will eat the good things of the earth;(20)But if you refuse and disobey,You will be devoured [by] the sword. —
For it was GOD who spoke.(21)Alas, she has become a whore,The faithful cityThat was filled with justice,Where righteousness dwelt—But now murderers.(22)Your silver has turned to dross;
Your wine is cut with water.(23)Your rulers are roguesAnd cronies of thieves,Every one avid for presentsAnd greedy for gifts;They do not judge the case of the orphan,And the widow’s cause never reaches them.

(1) Alas!
Lonely sits the city
Once great with people!
She that was great among nations
Is become like a widow;
The princess among states
Is become a thrall.(2) Bitterly she weeps in the night,
Her cheek wet with tears.
There is none to comfort her
Of all her friends.
All her allies have betrayed her;
They have become her foes.(3) Judah has gone into exile
Because of misery and harsh oppression;
When she settled among the nations,
She found no rest;
All her pursuers overtook her
In the narrow places.^-b(4) Zion’s roads are in mourning,
Empty of festival pilgrims;
All her gates are deserted.
Her priests sigh,
Her maidens are unhappy—
She is utterly disconsolate!

(28) What kind of place are we going to? Our brothers have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”(29) I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them.(30) None other than your God יהוה, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as [God] did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,(31) and in the wilderness, where you saw how your God יהוה carried you, as a householder carries his son, all the way that you traveled until you came to this place.(32) Yet for all that, you have no faith in your God יהוה,(33) who goes before you on your journeys—to scout the place where you are to encamp—in fire by night and in cloud by day, in order to guide you on the route you are to follow.”

כאשר ישא איש את בנו AS A MAN DOTH BEAR HIS SON — The meaning is just as I have explained in connection with the verse (Exodus 14:19—20), "And the angel of the Lord that went before the camp of the Israelites moved, etc.". A parable! It may be compared to one who is proceeding on a journey, his son walking in front of him. If bandits come to kidnap him (the son), he takes him away from in front of him and places him behind himself, etc.

(31) And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had remembered the children of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.[1]

(12) But Moses’ hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur, one on each side, supported his hands; thus his hands remained steady until the sun set.

(12) And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: ‘Because ye believed not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.’

(7) He was foster father to Hadassah—that is, Esther—his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was shapely and beautiful; and when her father and mother died, Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter.

(16) Naomi took the child and held it to her bosom. She became its foster mother,