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and take the LORD’s ark and lay it on the cart. Put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a box by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. Box. Hebrew argaz, (which the Septuagint retain. Bible.) means also “a purse or basket.” Calmet.—Josephus (vi. 1,) says, “the box was placed upon the ark.” Bible.—We do not read what became of these presents afterwards: but it is supposed that they were kept in the sanctuary till the time of the captivity. Calmet.
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