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<div2 id="Num.i" n="i" next="Num.ii" prev="Num" progress="63.75%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Num.i-p0.1">Numbers</h2>
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<pb id="Num.i-Page_562" n="562"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Num.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Num.i-p1"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Num.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Num.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Num.i-p1.3">OF THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED</h5>
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<h2 id="Num.i-p1.4">N U M B E R S.</h2>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Num.i-p2"><span class="smallcaps" id="Num.i-p2.1">The</span> titles
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of the five books of Moses, which we use in our Bibles, are all
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borrowed from the Greek translation of the Seventy, the most
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ancient version of the Old Testament that we know of. But the title
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of this book only we turn into English; in all the rest we retain
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the Greek word itself, for which difference I know no reason but
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that the Latin translators have generally done the same. Otherwise
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this book might as well have been called <i>Arithmoi,</i> the Greek
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title, as the first <i>Genesis,</i> and the second <i>Exodus;</i>
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or these might as well have been translated, and called, the first
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the <i>Generation,</i> or <i>Original,</i> the second the
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<i>Out-let,</i> or <i>Escape,</i> as this <i>Numbers.</i>—This
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book was thus entitled because of the numbers of the children of
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Israel, so often mentioned in this book, and so well worthy to give
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a title to it, because it was the remarkable accomplishment of
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God's promise to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of
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heaven for multitude. It also relates to two numberings of them,
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None at Mount Sinai (<scripRef id="Num.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.1.1-Num.1.54" parsed="|Num|1|1|1|54" passage="Nu 1:1-54"><i>ch.</i>
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i.</scripRef>), the other in the plains of Moab, thirty-nine years
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after, <scripRef id="Num.i-p2.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.26.1-Num.26.65" parsed="|Num|26|1|26|65" passage="Nu 26:1-65"><i>ch.</i> xxvi</scripRef>.
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And not three men the same in the last account that were in the
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first. The book is almost equally divided between histories and
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laws, intermixed.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="Num.i-p3">We have here, I. The histories of the
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numbering and marshalling of the tribes (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.1.1-Num.4.49" parsed="|Num|1|1|4|49" passage="Nu 1:1-4:49"><i>ch.</i> i.-iv.</scripRef>), the dedication of the
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altar and Levites (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Num.7.1-Num.8.26" parsed="|Num|7|1|8|26" passage="Nu 7:1-8:26"><i>ch.</i> vii.
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viii.</scripRef>), their march (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:Num.9.1-Num.10.36" parsed="|Num|9|1|10|36" passage="Nu 9:1-10:36"><i>ch.</i> ix. x.</scripRef>), their murmuring and
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unbelief, for which they were sentenced to wander forty years in
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the wilderness (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.4" osisRef="Bible:Num.11.1-Num.14.45" parsed="|Num|11|1|14|45" passage="Nu 11:1-14:45"><i>ch.</i>
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xi.-xiv.</scripRef>), the rebellion of Korah (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.5" osisRef="Bible:Num.16.1-Num.17.13" parsed="|Num|16|1|17|13" passage="Nu 16:1-17:13"><i>ch.</i> xvi. xvii.</scripRef>), the history of
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the last year of the forty (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.6" osisRef="Bible:Num.20.1-Num.26.65" parsed="|Num|20|1|26|65" passage="Nu 20:1-26:65"><i>ch.</i> xx.-xxvi.</scripRef>), the conquest of
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Midian, and the settlement of the two tribes (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.7" osisRef="Bible:Num.31.1-Num.32.42" parsed="|Num|31|1|32|42" passage="Nu 31:1-32:42"><i>ch.</i> xxxi. xxxii.</scripRef>), with an
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account of their journeys, <scripRef id="Num.i-p3.8" osisRef="Bible:Num.33.1-Num.33.56" parsed="|Num|33|1|33|56" passage="Nu 33:1-56"><i>ch.</i> xxxiii</scripRef>. II. Divers laws about
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the Nazarites, &c. (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.9" osisRef="Bible:Num.5.1-Num.6.27" parsed="|Num|5|1|6|27" passage="Nu 5:1-6:27"><i>ch.</i>
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v. vi.</scripRef>); and again about the priests' charge, &c.
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(<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.10" osisRef="Bible:Num.18.1-Num.19.22" parsed="|Num|18|1|19|22" passage="Nu 18:1-19:22"><i>ch.</i> xviii.
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xix.</scripRef>), feasts (<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.11" osisRef="Bible:Num.28.1-Num.29.40" parsed="|Num|28|1|29|40" passage="Nu 28:1-29:40"><i>ch.</i> xxviii. xxix.</scripRef>), and vows
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(<scripRef id="Num.i-p3.12" osisRef="Bible:Num.30.1-Num.30.16" parsed="|Num|30|1|30|16" passage="Nu 30:1-16"><i>ch.</i> xxx.</scripRef>), and
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relating to their settlement in Canaan, <scripRef id="Num.i-p3.13" osisRef="Bible:Num.27.1-Num.27.23 Bible:Num.34.1-Num.36.13" parsed="|Num|27|1|27|23;|Num|34|1|36|13" passage="Nu 27:1-23,34:1-36:13"><i>ch.</i> xxvii. xxxiv. xxxv.
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xxxvi.</scripRef>. An abstract of much of this book we have in a
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few words in <scripRef id="Num.i-p3.14" osisRef="Bible:Ps.95.10" parsed="|Ps|95|10|0|0" passage="Ps 95:10">Ps. xcv. 10</scripRef>,
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<i>Forty years long was I grieved with this generation;</i> and an
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application of it to ourselves in <scripRef id="Num.i-p3.15" osisRef="Bible:Heb.4.1" parsed="|Heb|4|1|0|0" passage="Heb 4:1">Heb.
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iv. 1</scripRef>, <i>Let us fear lest we seem to come short.</i>
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Many considerable nations there were now in being, that dwelt in
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cities and fortified towns, of which no notice is taken, no account
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kept, by the sacred history: but very exact records are kept of the
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affairs of a handful of people, that dwelt in tents, and wandered
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strangely in a wilderness, because they were the children of the
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covenant. <i>For the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot
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of his inheritance.</i></p>
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</div2>
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