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Dave Selby’s biblical errors

Dave Selby is one of the articles I read first every month, and as usual the March issue made me smile – and we all need that. But I did want to point out an inaccuracy: if Moses had just come down from Mount Zion it would have saved the Israelites a 40-year wander through the wilderness and would have made him more popular than Joe Biden.

Alas, he actually came down from Mount Sinai which is over 300 miles away, although my google search did suggest it was only light traffic on the route…

Thanks again and keep up the good work. I look forward to sailing for real again later in

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