Numbers 33:9 (WEB)
They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
Fathers and councils · 2
“For of this number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator’s dispensation in the twelve springs of Elim; in the twelve gems of Aaron’s priestly vestment; and in the twelve stones appointed by Joshua to be taken out of the Jordan, and set up for the ark of the covenant.” — editor's note: Num. xxxiii. 9.
Read the whole comment“Now why, if the twelve followed the number of the twelve fountains of Elim, should not the seventy correspond to the like number of the palms of that place?” — editor's note: Ex. xv. 27 and Num. xxxiii. 9.
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Cross-references · 1
Exodus 15:27 and Numbers 33:9 share the same wording (10 words).