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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 4:2

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Take you twelve men out of the people, etc.] Joshua had before this ordered twelve men to be taken from among them, which seems to have been done of himself; and now he has a direction from God for it, and what to employ them in: out of every tribe a man; so that what they did was in the name of the several tribes, and as representing them.
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