John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 13:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord, etc.] By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means: sent them from the wilderness of Paran; from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed, was on the twenty ninth day of Sivan: (see Gill on “<041301>Numbers 13:1”); all those [were] heads of the children of Israel; were not mean and vulgar men, but persons of rule, who bore some office of magistracy ant government among the people in their respective tribes.

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