Who Can Count the Dust of Jacob and Its Commandments

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Balak 20:1

Curated by Arthur·Translated by Maggid (Beta)·

"Who has counted the dust of Jacob?" (Numbers 23:10). Who is able to count the commandments that they perform that are like the dust? "You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together" (Deuteronomy 22:10); "You shall not sow your vineyard" (Deuteronomy 22:9); "And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer" (Numbers 19:9); "Three years it shall be forbidden to you" (Leviticus 19:23); "And some of the dust that is on the floor of the Tabernacle" (Numbers 5:17).

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