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Numbers 8:16

Numbers 8:16

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wholly given: Nethunim, nethunim:, "given, given." The word being repeated, "because," says Bp. Patrick, "the children of Israel had devoted them to him, by laying their hands upon them (), and Aaron had waved them as a wave-offering to the Lord" ().

instead of such: Houbigant, on the authority of the Samaritan, reads, "instead of every first-born of the children of Israel, who openeth the womb." ,

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