Numbers
See also: numbers
English
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Proper noun
[edit]Numbers
- The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.
- Synonym: (abbreviation) Num.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter.
Translations
[edit]fourth book of the Bible
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