OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 20:19

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The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”

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Verse 19. Price. Hebrew “I will only do one thing, walk through.” Septuagint “the matter is of no consequence, we go by the mountain.” Louis de Dieu translates, “It is not indeed a word, (or idle pretence) I will pass through on foot.”

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