 Josephus expounded on the curse in of one who "makes the blind go astray in the way," teaching that one has a duty more generally to show the roads to those who do not know them.And, he taught, one has a duty not to consider it a matter for sport to hinder others by setting them on the wrong way.Echoing the command of that the Israelites “shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left,” the Community Rule of the Qumran sectarians provided, “They shall not depart from any command of God concerning their times; they shall be neither early nor late for any of their appointed times, they shall stray neither to the right nor to the left of any of His true precepts.”

The parashah is discussed in these rabbinic sources from the era of the Mishnah and the Talmud