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In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
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Verse 1. This day. The same on which they departed from the Raphidim, or on the third day of the third month; though Saint Augustine understands the first of the month; ( Calmet.) on which last supposition, allowing 16 days of the month Nisan, 30 of Jiar, and 4 of Sivan, the law was given 50 days after the liberation of the Jews, as the new law was promulgated on Whit-Sunday, on the day of Pentecost. Saint Augustine ep. 119. 16. Worthington.
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