Numbers 14:39

14:39 When Moses told62 these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned63 greatly.

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62	tn The preterite here is subordinated to the next preterite to form a temporal clause.
63	tn The word אָבַל (’aval) is rare, used mostly for mourning over deaths, but it is used here of mourning over bad news (see also Exod 33:4; 1 Sam 15:35; 16:1; etc.).