OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 14:22

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because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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Verse 22. The men, above twenty years of age, verse 29.—Majesty, manifested by the signs, and so forth Bible.—Ten times; very often. It is not necessary to specify the number of the rebellions, as some have done, placing the first on the other side of the Red Sea, (Exodus 14:11,) and the tenth here. The expression is often used to express a great but indefinite number. Eccles. 7:20. Calmet.

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