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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
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CHAPTER 20
  13 This is the water of aMeribah; because the children of Israel bstrove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Footnotes
13a
IE Quarrel, Strife, Contention.
Ex. 17: 7.
  7 And he called the name of the place aMassah, and bMeribah, because of the cchiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
Deut. 33: 8.
  8 ¶ And of aLevi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy bUrim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst cstrive at the waters of dMeribah;
Ezek. 47: 19.
  19 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of astrife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
b
Ezek. 48: 28.
  28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of astrife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.