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'israel in the Wilderness'
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 67 CHAPTER II. SARBUT-EL-KHADEM THE KIBROTH-HATTAAVAH OF NUMB. XI. 34. Eldad and Medad, and the Sinaltic Inscriptions. Two pious Israelites, named Eldad and Medad, gave birth to a beautiful yet mysterious episode in the sacred narrative, which is familiar to every reader; but which has a peculiar interest in the present connection, as the incidents which it relates occurred in or near the very locality at which we have now arrived, the camp of Kibroth-Hattaavah. ' But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them, (and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle,) and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ?Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.' In this context the Hebrew phrase, rendered by our translators (after the Septuagint and Vulgate) ' among them that were written,' is confessedly obscure; and its obscurity has been increased only by the vain attempts of the rabbins and commentators to clear it. By the Jewish doctors, with one consent, the phrase has been understood to refer to certain scrolls or tablets (what in modern parlance might be termed ' tickets of admission') on which Moses inscribed the word ' Elder,' and delivered them to the seventy (in whose number Eldad and Medad were included) as their passport to office. f Now, although this solution of the diffic...
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Pages 162
Dimensions: Length: 9.02" Width: 5.98" Height: 0.35"
Weight: 0.54 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 9, 2009
ISBN 0217144683
EAN 9780217144681
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