OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 3:1

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Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

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Verse 1. Days, in part, as they arrived on the 8th of Nisan, staid there the following day, and crossed the Jordan on the 10th, on Friday the 30th of our April. Thus Christ is said to have remained three days in the tomb, ( Calmet.) though he was there only a small part of Friday and of Sunday, and the whole of Saturday. Hebrew “they lodged there before they passed over, (2) and it came to pass after three days that the,” and so forth

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