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The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
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Verse 8. Days, as they had done for Mary and for Aaron: (Joseph.) the usual term was only seven days. Calmet.—The Jews would probably have prolonged their mourning for Moses forty days, in honour of the years of his government, if they had not been ordered to cross the Jordan. Salien.
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