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According to the number of all the males from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the requirements of the sanctuary.
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Verse 28. Sanctuary, with respect to the things mentioned, verse 31. Menochius.—The Samaritan copy observes, that they also carried the brazen laver, as we find they did, Calmet. 4:14. All these things were folded up in the violet curtains of the sanctuary, while the ark was covered with the veil which hung before it. Calmet. 4:5. Some pretend that the number here specified ought to be 830, to obviate a difficulty, verse 39. But this amendment has no solid foundation. Calmet.
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