Another matter: “Command the children of Israel” – Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi] and the Rabbis: Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi] says: One verse says: “Is there a number to His troops?” (Job 25:3), and another verse says: “Thousands upon thousands will serve Him” (Daniel 7:10), and another verse says: “The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands of companies. My Lord is among them, at Sinai, in holiness” (Psalms 68:18).
Rather, this is the number in one troop, but there is no number to His troops. The Rabbis say: One verse says: “Is there a number to His troops?” and another verse says: “Thousands upon thousands will serve Him.” Rather, until the Temple was destroyed, the lauding of the Holy One blessed be He would ascend in completeness. When the Temple was destroyed, the Holy One blessed be He, as it were, reduced His entourage.
The Holy One blessed be He said: It is not right for My lauding to ascend as it used to ascend. “On whom will His light not rise?” (Job 25:3) – who from all who entered the world can come and say: The sun did not illuminate for me during the day and the moon did not illuminate for me in the night? You illuminate for the supernal, the earthly, and for all who enter the world, yet You desire Israel’s light. That is what is written: “Command the children of Israel.”