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Numbers 27:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Numbers 27:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 “May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humanity,[a] set over the community someone
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- 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.
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