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**chief fathers** = heads.
**sons.** A special various reading called *Sevir* ( App-34 ), with Syriac, reads "son", as in [Numbers 36:12](../../../kjv/numbers/36/12) .
**children** = sons.

**The LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**my lord** = Moses, to whom the commandment was given. [Numbers 26:52](../../../kjv/numbers/26/52) , [Numbers 26:53](../../../kjv/numbers/26/53) , &c.; [Numbers 27:6](../../../kjv/numbers/27/6) , [Numbers 27:7](../../../kjv/numbers/27/7) .

**jubile.** Compare [Leviticus 25](../../../kjv/leviticus/25) .

**word.** Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for what is spoken by it.

**keep himself** = cleave.

**man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .

**These.** This verse forms the closing Epilogue to the whole book of Numbers.

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