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Numbers 9:20

Numbers 9:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And so it was. Rather, "did it happen that." וְיֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר hypothetical clause introducing several other cases which actually occurred, and by which their perfect obedience was proved.

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