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Numbers 21:4

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mount Hor: Numbers 20:22-23, Numbers 20:27, Numbers 33:41

by the way: Numbers 14:25; Deuteronomy 1:40

compass: Numbers 20:18-21; Deuteronomy 2:5-8; Judges 11:18

the soul: Numbers 32:7, Numbers 32:9; Exodus 6:9; Acts 14:22; 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

discouraged: or, grieved, Heb. shortened, Exodus 6:9

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