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Numbers 20:1

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Then: This was the first month of the fortieth year after the departure from Egypt. (Compare Numbers 33:38, with Numbers 20:28 of this chapter and Deuteronomy 1:3.) This year was the last of their journeyings, for from the going out of the spies (Numbers 13:1) unto this time, was about thirty-eight years. Deuteronomy 1:22-23, Deuteronomy 2:14

into: Numbers 13:21, Numbers 27:14, Numbers 33:36; Deuteronomy 32:51

Kadesh: This Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, is different from Kadesh-barnea, lying in, or adjoining to the wilderness of Paran, about eight leagues south of Hebron. (See note on Numbers 34:3-4. Joshua 15:1, Joshua 15:3.) Kadesh is called Rekam, by the Targumists, Rekem, in the Syriac, and Rakim, in Arabic. Rekem, says Rabbi Nissin (in Gittin, chapter 1) is on the east, meaning of the land of Israel. Numbers 20:16; Psalms 29:8

Miriam: Numbers 12:1, Numbers 12:10, Numbers 12:15, Numbers 26:59; Exodus 2:4, Exodus 2:7, Exodus 15:20; Micah 6:4

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