OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 3:5

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Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

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Verse 5. Sanctified, as Moses had required at Mount Sinai, (Exodus 19:10. 15,) ordering the people to wash their garments, and to abstain from their wives, that by this exterior purity, they might be reminded not to neglect that of the soul, without which they would derive but small benefit or instruction from the greatest miracles.

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