OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 21:4

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They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey.

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Verse 4. Edom, one of the princes, had refused them a passage; upon which they went by Salmona to Phunon, (Calmet. 33:37. 42,) where they probably murmured, (Calmet. 5) and were bitten by the serpents, as we read in this chapter. Calmet.

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