And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
and a several tenth deal to the one lamb, for the fourteen lambs,
and one tenth part for each lamb of the fourteen lambs;
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
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Commentary On Chapter XXIX 6. Of the month - Belonging to every new moon. Afflict your souls - Yourselves, by fasting and abstinence from all delightful things, and by compunction for your sins, and the judgments of God, either deserved by you or inflicted upon you.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
