Num. 7:72

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eleventh day.

Dr. Adam Clarke remarks, that the Hebrew form of expression here, and in the 78th verse, has something curious in it; {beyom �htey �ar yom,} "in the day, the first and tenth day;" {beyom shenim �ar yom,} "in the day, two and tenth day." But this is the idiom of the language; and to an original Hebrew, our almost anomalous words eleventh and twelfth, would appear as strange.

Pagiel.

Num 1:13; Num 2:27