| Numbers 20:13
| This is the water of contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.
| The water of contradiction or strife. Hebrew Meribah. (Challoner) --- Sanctified: he shewed the effects of his power and clemency towards the people, and he treated his ministers with a just severity. The Samaritan copy here inserts what we read in Deuteronomy, only it places the speech of Moses in an historical form. "The Moses said, Lord, etc. (Deuteronomy 3:24-28.) Moreover, the Lord said to Moses, you shall pass by," etc. (Deuteronomy 2:4-6.)
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