And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Ver. 10. And kept the Passover.] Which it seemeth they had not done for a long time before. See Numbers 9:1,2. So that they were without the use of those two standing sacraments during their abode in the wilderness; peradventure, saith one, a through a profane carelessness of the people, which God punished by suffering them to go on in their sin without admonishing, or reproving them for it.
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