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Joshua 8:35

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

was not: Deuteronomy 4:2; Jeremiah 26:2; Acts 20:27

women: Deuteronomy 29:11, Deuteronomy 31:12; Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 8:2; Joel 2:16; Mark 10:14; Acts 21:5

were: Heb. walked

conversant: The word conversant, from the Latin conversor:, is here used in the classical sense of having intercourse with.

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