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Numbers 31:51

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

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,.... For it seems the several things before mentioned were all of gold:even all wrought jewels; or "vessels of work" or wrought vessels, or instruments, "chains, bracelets", &c.

which were all of gold, and curiously wrought.

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