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22 But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

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22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown(A) and cried out, “O God, the God who gives breath to all living things,(B) will you be angry with the entire assembly(C) when only one man sins?”(D)

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16 “May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity,[a] set over the community someone

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Footnotes

  1. 27:16 The God of the spirits of all humanity: the sense is that God knows the character and abilities of all people and therefore knows best whom to appoint (cf. Jgs 6:34; 11:29; 1 Sm 16:13); see the same phrase in Nm 16:22, where “spirit” evidently means the life principle.

16 “May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all living things,(A) appoint someone over this community

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