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and now, bear with, I pray you, my sin, only this time, and make ye supplication to Jehovah your God, that He turn aside from off me only this death.'
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and the people come in unto Moses and say, `We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, and He doth turn aside from us the serpent;' and Moses prayeth in behalf of the people.
7672. 'And Jehovah said to Moses' means instruction. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' - when Jehovah tells Moses, who represents God's truth, what needs to be done - as instruction, dealt with in 6879, 6881, 6887, 6891, 7186, 7267, 7304, 7380.
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