Numbers 14:3

wherefore. Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah.

were it not... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

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³ And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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