CHAPTER XIV.
XIV. At that time God said unto him: Begin to
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1 2 because they believed me not, and the 50th part of them I was left and I sanctified them unto me. Therefore do I command the generation of my people to give me tithes of their fruits, to be before me for a memorial of how great oppression I have removed from them. 5. And when Moses came down and declared these things to the people, they mourned and lamented and abode in the desert two years.
Footnotes
117:1 XIV. 3. The number at the end of this verse is hopelessly corrupt.
118:1 i.e. 2,180,000.
118:2 4. The number 2,180,000 seems as if it ought to bear a relation to the 210 years spent in Egypt: qu. 2,100,000?
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