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Numbers 11:25

Numbers 11:25

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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gave it: From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre.

they prophesied: By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God. , , ; ; ; ; , ; , , ;

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