the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Clementine Latin Vulgate
Numeri 32:2
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venerunt ad Moysen, et ad Elezarum sacerdotem, et principes multitudinis, atque dixerunt:
venerunt ad Moysen et ad Eleazarum sacerdotem et principes congregationis atque dixerunt:
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Reciprocal: Joshua 13:7 - General Joshua 21:8 - as the Lord
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses,.... The children of Gad are mentioned first, though Reuben was the firstborn, and had a standard under which Gad pitched: it may be, as Aben Ezra thinks, the Gadites were the first authors of this counsel, the contrivers of this scheme; who first moved it to the Reubenites, which they had an opportunity of doing, lying encamped by them; or however, they might be the most busy and active in this affair, or the best spokesmen; for it could be only some, in the name of the whole, that addressed Moses on this account, and spoke to him about it:
and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation; who perhaps were the seventy elders, and with Moses the chief ruler, and Eleazar the high priest, made up the grand sanhedrim, or great council of the nation, and were undoubtedly the most proper persons to apply unto:
saying: as follows.
