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**spake.** See note on [Numbers 1:1](../../../kjv/numbers/1/1) .

**children** = sons.

**tabernacle** = tent. Hebrew. *'ohel.* See App-40 .
**testimony** = the ark of the covenant. Compare [Exodus 25:16](../../../kjv/exodus/25/16)
**you.** Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "thee".

**laid up the rods.** Korah's rebellion added two things to the tabernacle: Aaron's rod within, brazen plates without ([Numbers 16:39](../../../kjv/numbers/16/39) , [Numbers 16:40](../../../kjv/numbers/16/40) ).
**tabernacle of witness** = tent of (or containing) the testimony (i.e. the ark, and the two tables). App-40 . See note on [Exodus 25:22](../../../kjv/exodus/25/22) .

**behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**said.** See note on [Numbers 3:40](../../../kjv/numbers/3/40) .
**testimony** = the ark of the covenant, as in [Numbers 17:4](../../../kjv/numbers/17/4) .
**rebels.** Hebrew sons of rebellion. Genitive of character = rebellious ones.
**take away** = assuage, or, abate, as in [Numbers 17:5](../../../kjv/numbers/17/5) . Compare [Genesis 8:1](../../../kjv/genesis/8/1) .

**we perish, we all perish.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ), to enhance the alarm of the People.

**tabernacle** = habitation. Hebrew. *mishkan.* App-40 .
**die . . . dying.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ), as in [Numbers 17:12](../../../kjv/numbers/17/12) , to emphasize alarm.

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