OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 32:25

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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

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Verse 25. Ruben. No mention is made of those of the half tribe of Manasses. Perhaps they only joined the rest afterwards. Calmet. 5:31. They occupied the northern parts. Bible.—The Hebrew has here a solecism, “the sons of Gad he said;” to avoid which, Onkelos adds, the tribe, and so forth Houbig.

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