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Numbers 32:23

The Pulpit Commentary on Numbers 32:23

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Be sure your sin will find you out. Or rather, "ye will know your sin" ( וּדְעוּ חאָתְכֶם) "which shall find you out" (for מָצָא cf. ). So in effect the Septuagint: γνώσεσθε τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ὑῶν, ὅταν ὑμᾶς καταλάβῃ τὰ κακά.

When they had cause to rue their folly, then they would recognize their sin.

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