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Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go from there to Hazar Addar, and pass along to Azmon.
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Verse 4. The Scorpion. A mountain so called, from having a great number of scorpions. Challoner.—Hebrew Hakrabbim. There was a city of the same name, the capital of Acrabathene, (1 Maccabees 3:3,) not far from Petra.—Senna, a town of the desert of Zin, ( Calmet.) or a mountain specified Judges 1:36. S. Jerom.—Adar. Hebrew “Hasor Adar.” But they seem to be two distinct towns. Joshua 15:3.—Asemona. See Calmet. 33:30.
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