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Numbers 12:2

Numbers 12:2

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And they said, hath the Lord, indeed spoken only by Moses?.... They own he had spoken by him; this was so notorious that it could not be denied:hath he not spoken also by us? are we not prophets as well as he?

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