[Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us,.... The worshipping of that idol, when in the plains of Moab; the history of which, see in Nu 25:2, was that so small a sin, that another must be added to it, or a greater committed?
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Joshua 22:17
Joshua 22:17
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