OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 14:4

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They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

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Verse 4. Captain, instead of Moses, whom they could not bring over to their criminal design, no more than Aaron, Josue, Caleb, and so forth Bible.—Some imagine the rebels wanted to choose themselves a king, ( Calmet.) or even another god. Drusius.—Every community acknowledges the necessity of having one at the head. Worthington.

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