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Numbers 15:17

Numbers 15:17

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

And the Lord spake unto Moses. Whether on the same or on some other occasion we cannot tell. The two enactments have the same supplemental and (humanly speaking) trivial character.

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