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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the Lord said unto Moses,.... By a voice out of the cloud, though at a distance; unless it was by a secret impulse upon his spirit, darting such words into his mind as if he heard an audible voice: if her father had but spit in her face; or, "in spitting spitted" (l); spit much, and continued spitting till he had covered her face with spittle;...
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And Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days,.... And so in later times lepers dwelt alone, and in a separate house, as long as the leprosy was upon them, see 2 Chronicles 26:21; Miriam no doubt was healed at once, but, as a punishment for her sin, she was obliged to keep out of the camp of Israel for such a space of time: and the people...
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And afterwards the people removed from Hazeroth,.... After seven days, where they had been so long at least; the cloud being returned to the tabernacle, and having been taken up, which was the signal for motion, the camps of Israel, in their order, removed and marched forward: and pitched in the wilderness of Paran; at a place in it called...
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INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 13 In this chapter an order is given by the Lord, to send twelve men into the land of Canaan, to search and spy it, and which was accordingly executed, Numbers 13:1; and the names of the twelve persons are given, Numbers 13:4; the instructions they received from Moses, what part of the land they should enter into first, and...
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And the Lord Spake unto Moses,.... When in the wilderness of Paran, either at Rithmah or Kadesh; this was on the twenty ninth day of the month Sivan, on which day, the Jews say (o), the spies were sent to search the land, which was a scheme of the Israelites' own devising, and which they first proposed to Moses, who approved of it as prudential...
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Send thou men,.... Which is rather a permission than a command; so Jarchi interprets it, "send men according to thy mind, I do not command thee, but if thou pleasest send;'' this he observed was agreeable to Moses, and to the Israelites, and therefore granted it, or allowed them to take their own way, and which issued badly, as it always does,...
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And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord,.... By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means: sent them from the wilderness of Paran; from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed, was on the twenty ninth day of Sivan: [See...
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And these [were] their names, of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. From Numbers 13:4, there is nothing but the names of the said persons, whose sons they were, and of what tribe; and the several tribes are mentioned, not according to the order of the birth of the patriarchs, nor according to the dignity of their mothers that bore...
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Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Joseph, [namely], of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. [See comments on Numbers 13:4].
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These [are] the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land,.... Which is observed after the catalogue is given of them, Numbers 13:4; and this is repeated that their names may be taken notice of, which stand on record to the disgrace of the greater number of them, and to the honour of two only, Joshua and Caleb; and on the former the...