What is the significance of the concluding statement that Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded?
Israel’s obedience is the hallmark
of their attitude at Mount Sinai (Numbers 1:1–10:101). It is against this background that their disobedience becomes all the more devastating to the reader.
54 Les enfants d'Israël se conformèrent à tous les ordres que l'Eternel avait donnés à Moïse; ils firent ainsi.