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Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1
Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 · 2,318,168 words · 1997 reading sections
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u Either one of the Angels : Or the third Perſon, the Lord him- ſ&)f, who having parted from Alraham, after ſome time came to 49, as appears buth by the change of the number, for before this he ſpeaks of them. in the plural namber, but from hence inthe ſingular number, as Yerſe.19: 21, 22: and by the variation of t…
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l Through curiolity, w unvelief, or defire of what ſhe lefr, or from all taele Cauſes. k ( e.) From behind her Husband, whom ſhe followed. Wh'ch circumtynce ſeems ro be mentioned as the reaſon ofrhisPreſumprion, becauſcſhe could do it wirhout her Husband's Obſervation or Reproof, ro W,ch ſhe had a greater regard th…
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c Left they ſhould ſlay him for his beautiful Wifes ſake, as himſelf tells us, Yerſe 11. For though Sarah was ninety years old, yer ſhe retained her Beauty in good meaſure, partly becauſe ſhe had nor been broken by bearing and nurſing of Children, partly becauſe in that age of the World Men and Women as they lived …
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14 And Abimelech took ſheep and oxen, and men- ſervants, and women-ſervants, and gave them unto Abraham, and reſtored him Sarah his wife. is And Abimelech ſaid, Behold, my land is before thee c, dwell + where it pleaſeth thee. { Heb: 2s c (5. e. ) Free for thy view and choice, as Gen. 13. 9. 1s good int 16 And un…
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*Ats7:8 2 For Sarah * conceived and bare Abrahama ſon in If, : Ds. ; . . q! | 13'And allo of the fon of the bond-woman, will I He +22ug yo wi b 3 at the ſer time of which God had ſpo make a * nation, becauſe he is thy feed. *Chap:17 *Y b Or, For bir old age, i. e. for the comfort of his old age. 14 And Abraham roſe …
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1” ; | r He who before doubted and lingred to do it when Sarah's Paſ= *Chap:17% $5 And * Abraham was an hundred years old, when ton ſuggeſted it, when once he actideflands it to be God's Will, T7. his ſor Iſaac was born unto him. he makes haſte to execute it, An excellent Example of Prudence 6 © Arid Sarah ſaid, God…
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19 And God opened her eyes c, and ſhe faw a well of water : and ſhe went, and filled the botcle with wa= ter, and gave the lad drink. | £ Not that her Eyes were ſhut or blind before, but ſhe faw not her Eyes were full of Tears, -and her Mind diſtrafted and heedleſs through exceſſive Grief and Fear ; or becauſe God…
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2 And he ſaid, Take now thy ſon, thine only ſor Haac,wjiom thou loveſt 4, and getthee into the land of Moriah e ; and 6ffer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains f which I will tell thee of g. d Not a word here but might pierce an heart of ſtone, mucly more 1o tender a Father as Abraham was. Tak…
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and worſhip, and come again to you 6 | & Left they ſhould hinder him in the execution of his deſign. / For he knew that God both could. and would for his promiie ſake, either preſerve {ſac from being facrificed, or afterward raiſe him from the dead, as it is intimated, Heb. 11. 19. 6s And Abraham took the wood of …
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infos "Ez bas. 4 Chap. all probability utterly loſt to his Owner, and becauſe he had no doubt a Warrant and Inſpiraticn for it frcm the great Loid and Supreme Owner of all things. * 14 And Abraham cailed the name of that place F Jehovah-jirth z : as it is ſaid to this day s, In the mount b of the Lord ic ſhall b…
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2 And Abraham ſtood up from before his dead e, and fpake unto the ſons of Heth, faying, e To ſhew his moderation in ſorrow, and to take care for her burial, accordingto his duty. ; 4 I am afitranger, and a {ojourner with yougive me a poſſeſſion of a burying-place f with you g, that I may bury my dead outof my fig…
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' made ſure unto Abraham for a polleſſion of a burying- Place, by the ſons of Heths CHAP. XXIV, Abraham's ate and proſperity, 1. He makes his eldeſt ſervant ſwear not ro rake a wife for his ſon Iſaac of the Canaanites, bus of his own kindred, 2 * 4 The ſervant enquires into the ature and conditions of the oath, 5…
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; Ta caſe ſhe will not come hither, do not thou eng2ge that he ſha! go thither. Why ſo ? x. Becauſe there was more danger of infe&ion from his Wife and her Kindred, becauſe of their friendly, and familiar, and conſtant converſe with him, than from the Ca- naauites, who were ſtrangers to him, and lived ſeparately fr…
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25 She ſaid moreover unto him, We have both ftraw and porn wan; Fr room tolodge in. 26 Andthe man boweddown his head. and ips ped the LORD a. ? Ty x Giving thanks to God for his marvellous aſſiſtance hitherto,and begging the continuance of his preſence and blefling. 27 And he faid, Bieifed be the LORD God ofmy m…
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mels drink alſo; ſo I drank,and ſhe made the camels drink alſo. 47 And I asked her /,and ſaid, | Whoſe daughter arr * thou? and the ſaid, The daughter of Bethuel,Nahors ſon, whom Milcah bare unto him;and 1 pur the ear-ring u- pon her face,and the bracelets upon her hands: { Firſt he asks who ſhe was,then he gives…
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| 1 G:ron: 0, 32. # A I ah - 95 — acap_—_ from werſe | 12 T Now theſe 2 the generations of Iſhmael x A- E, and 12: and as it ſeems, of better Quality, an ounger, for ls | 20h Bl ge 2p Har was now Eighty years old, and not likely to be a Mother of brahams ſon, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahs hand- 56: {ix Children. y…
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e Either of the Country of Syria, as it is called, Hoſea 12-12.0r rather; Padan of Syria, oras the Septuagint and Chaldee render it, Meſopota- nia of Syria : For that Padan is the proper Name of a place, may be gathered from G22: 48: 7: and it is ſo called from its Scituation be= -ween two Rivers, for Padan ſignifi…
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elder p ſhall ſerve the younger. | 772 Eherby inward [nf{pication,in a Dream or Viſion ; or by the Miniſtry of in Angel or Prophet. (7: e:) The Roots, Heads, or Parents of two diftiz& Nations,one oppoſiteto the other; the one blef{:d, the other curſed, namely the [raclites and Edomites. o Not only ſeparated from r…
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z Jacob ated ſubtilly in this Afffair ; he knew that delays were dangerous ; and Eſa's conſideration, or ſecond thoughts, might have ſpoiled his Bargain, and therefore he requires haſte, as in the Sale, fo in his Oath ; wherein he addeth another Sin, in hurrying his Brother into an Oath by precipitation, which neith…
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[Either in the Grounds which he had hired of the right Owners; or in ſome Grounds which lay negle&ed ; and therefore were free to the firſt Occupier ; which was nor ſtrange in that Age of the World, when the Inhi.birants of Countreys vere not ſo numerous asafterward. m2 (7.e. ) An hundred timesas much as he ſowed. …
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z Both Airtires, the worſt of the Canaamtes, Exek. 16. 3. Which from his Grandfather 4brahar?'s ſevere Charge, Gen. 24 3. he muſt accds know v. ould be highly difpleaſing, both to God, and to his Parents. Andas Eſau has ſeveral Names, being called alſo Exam and Seir ; ſo it ſeems theſe Women and their Fa:ents had,b…
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k Either his Sacerdoral Garments which the eldeſt Son wore in the adminiſtration of that Office which belonged to him ; or rather ſome other Suit better than ordinary. ; | 1s And jhe put the skins ot the kids of the goats up- on his hands, and upon thie ſmoorh of his neck /, { Upon the two naked parts of his Body,…
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o Nor for any ſenſe of his former ſin, in deſpiſing his Birth-rishr, but for grief ar his great loſs therein, hecauſe God would not ſuffer him to be perjur'd in keeping thatBixth-right-bleſſing which he had ſold and ſworn away. p (z e.) Thou art my Father no leſs than his, and therefore as a Child, I claim a ſhare …
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t Eſau's wives, who were Hittites, Gen: 26: 34. f Therefore let us, after the Example of Abraham, ſend him to fetch a Wife from his own Kindred. This indeed was one reaſon, but the other ſhe conceals from J1ſazc ; thus prudently alledging ſeveral reatons, one to Jacob, and another, as it is probible, to Eja, and ea…
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went toward * Haran. | | \ * Calle F It is not ſtrange that Jacob went alone, as it appears that he did Ads 5 from Gen. 32. 10. When his Grandfather's Servant was attended Charr, with a great Retinue, Ger. 24. becauſe Attendance was then neceſſa- ry to procurehim Reputation, and to obtain the Conſent of the Virzin…
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he will ; or, Seing God will be with me, &c. for the Hebrew im doth not always imply a doubt, but rather a ſuppoſition, and 1s oft ren.ered ſeing that, as Exod: 20: 25: Numb: 36: 4: 1 Sam: 15: 17: 4mos 7: 2. And fo the Greek Particle anſwering to the He- brew im is uſed Matth: 6: 22: Luke 11: 34. #u Food convenient…
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IF cob, Becauſe tho my brother, Shouldeſt thou therefore ſerve hs he nought ? Tell me, What ſhall thy wages be ? 16 And Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder as Leah, and the name of the younger war Rachel. | 17 Leab 2s; tender eyed | : but Rachel was beauti- ful ond well-fayoured. : ” + Her eyes were …
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Rachel being barren, envies her ſiſter, impatiently defiv25 children of Jacob, flood fr ons *; Ii. He is angry, and reproves her, 2. She gives him hcr hand-maid bearing. Bilhah, who bears him Dan and Napthai;, 3---8. Leah ceaſing fo bear, gives Zilpah her maid to Jacob, 9. S/'2 bears him Gad and Aſher, Io---13. Reu…
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+That is, ] have born him fix ſons : and ſhe called his name + * dwelling. Zebu'un _ * Called ; 4 | | "TEE Marth. 4. 21. And afterwards ſhe bare a daughter, and called ' 13. 2abu- her name | Dinah, lon, 22T AndGod remembred Rachel, and God heark-. ns, ned to her, and opened her womb, ” #2 JW. 22 And ſhe conceive…
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37 4 Ard Jacob rook him rods þ of green poplar and of the haſel, and cheſnut tree ;; and pilled white itrakes in them, and made the white appear 7 which was inthe rods. | h By Divine appointment, as will appear in the Sequel,which ; ſufficient for Jacob's Juſtification. 7 Either becauſe thel- Tees my next at hand…
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part, as appears from Chap. 31. 1, 8. Or, for a'l that Jacob defired to be ſuch. h Hence it appears, that Laban through Envy and Co- vetouſneſs did break his ag- cement made with Jacob, and altered it as he thought meer, and that Jacob patieatly yielded to all ſuch changes. : 9 Thus God hath taken away the cattel …
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24 And God came to Laban the Syrian * ina dream . Jet b | by night,and ſaid unto him, Take heedchat thou ſpeak ,;. 'Y not to Jacob Þ either good or bad y. _ _ + Heb. , y Neither perſwading him by flattering Promiſes, and cunning: from good » Artifices, nor compelling him by Threatnings to return. 'For ſo #0 bad. | …
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_ and the froſt bynight, and my llgep departed trom mine ul | T Heb-/elr- Sane and called his brethren to eatbread, andthey did cat + Through my extraordinary thoughtfulnefs and care aboutthy Cattel, eſpecially in caſes of danger. 41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy houſe: T ſerved thee fourteen years for t…
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The anceis of God meet Jacob, 1. He calls them God's hoſt, and the pipes Mahonaim, 2. Sends meſſengers to his brother Eſau, | aaa} They return, and bring word that Eſau comes to meet him with four _ re men, 6. Fncob is afraid ; divides his people and cattle into two banas, 7; Gives erders concerning them,8. Prays t…
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T3. p Ir is obſervable,that Jacob direQts his prayers to God immediate- ly,and not to the Angels, though now, if ever, he had reaſon and obligation to do ſo, from their viſible apparition to him for his ſuc- cor and comfort. = 1o + I amnot worthy of the leaſt of all the mercies, + Heb. 7 and of all the truth, whi…
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ah's tent f, andinto the two maid-ſervants tents ; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. f The Men and Womens Tents were diſtin& and ſeparate. See Gen. 18: 2. and 24: 67. 34 Now Rachel had taken the Images, and put them | in the camel's furniture, and ſat upon the…
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r Towit, afterwards, wer.54. though it be here menticned by an- ticipation. ' Or rather by or beſide the heap, as the Hebrew Particle al 1s oft underſtood, as Pſal. 23: 2. and 81. 7. 47 And Laban calledit + Jegar-ſahadutha : but Ja- cob called it Galeed r. t Both names ſignifie the ſame thing, an heap of witneſs ;…
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until now g, EE RIS f Which Title being but a civil reſpe& commonly given in Scri- pture to ſuch perſons as have no authority nor ſuperiority over them who uſe it, as Gen: 23: 6: and 24. 18. Jacob doth not hereby re- nounce his Right of Primogeniture which was devolved upon him, nor return it to Eſau. Nor if he di…
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wives,and his two women-ſervants,and his eleven ſons T Heb: mp face. f c, and paſled over the foord Jabbok 4. | | c And Dinah, though ſhe be nor h=re mentioned ; as the women are oft omitted inS$cripture,as being comprehended under the men: d4 Which is here generally related, bur the time and manner of it is par…
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which 1 met ? + And he ſaid, Theſe ars to find grace in the ſighe of my Lord. . all thi + He knew his meaning before fromthe Servants meuths: but he £94 asks, tharhe might both be more certain] y informed cf the Truth Fee 2 and have an occaſion for a civil refuſal of the gift. ; 9 And Eſau laid, I have enough,my b…
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thy CO or ut only as dith x Dinah going forth to ſee the Daughters of the countrey, is ab , y a5 Euthonouravle and reproachful wy "by Sichem, fon of Hamar, 2. Who lover her, 3. Re uſed Los di /- I5 bur 1a this will we confanc unt = : fe . Jacob hears it, 5. Hamoy treats with Jacob and his Pane « wi be, as w2 be, tha…
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- within doors, as the word ſignifies. ' Phraſe is uſed, Deut: 4: 27. and 33:6: oppolite to which are men it be paſſed over in ſilence, as many other things are. See on Gen: 33 14+ , 0h 29. And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and ſpoiled even all that was in the hou…
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Nations, ſuch as all were accounted who were not 1ſraelires. Queſt: 0 How came theſe to be, and to continue ſo long in Jacob's Houle ? I2 And God went up from him? in the place where Anſw. Either x. by Rachel's means, who brought them from her | he talked with him. | Father's Houſe, which haply was not diſcovered ti…
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2 An horrid Inceft. ; for Concubines were a ſort of Wives. See Gen: 22: 24: and 25:1. f And doubtleſs ſadly reſented it, both in Reuben, as appears from Gen: 49: 4: 1 Chron: 5: I, 2: and 1n Bilhah whoſe Bed without queſtion he forſook upon ir, as afrerwards David did in the like caſe. * See 2 Sam: 16: 22: and 20:3.…
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countrey g from the face of his brother Jacob. f Queſt. x. Why went he thither ? 4Aſw. Partly by his own choice; that Wild and Mountainous Countrey being very commodious for hunting, ro which he wholly addited himſelf; partly by his Wives perſwaſions, who were both utterly averſe from Cohabitarion witt Iſaac or Ja…
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3 Ppinthe wilderneſs, as he fed the aſles of Zibeon his $%p;;, father. by "0 p So moſt underſtand the word Jemim, which is no where elſe 1: 4=: Uſed, and give this ſenſe of it. Thar he found out the way of the * Levit: | Generation of Mules by the Copulation of an Horſe and a Mare, © 19: 19: Others render it water…
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CHAP. XXXVIL Jacob dwells in Canaan : Joſeph brings ts his father an ill report of his brethren, 2. He loves, they hate him, 3, 4. The more becauſe of his dreams which he tola them, 5. His firſt dream - 7. His brethren interpret it, and their hatred increaſes, 8. His ſecond dream, 9. Tells it his father, who rebuk…
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from his Horſe; as the reſt did, when he met him upon the way. :zo And he roid zr to his Father, and co his brethren; and his farher rebuked him »,, and ſaid unco him, What 3s this dream that thou haſt dreamed ? ſhall I, and why wotier f, and thy brethren indeed come $0 bow down our ſelves to thee, to the earth 2?…
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4 This Story ſeems a little involved, and the Perſons to whom Wd; 192! he was fold, doubtful. Here ſeem to be two, if not three. ſorts of 13- Ads : Merchants mentioned, Jbmaelites, and Midianites here, and Meda- 7: 9- _: +, nites, as it 151n the Hebrew, werſe 36. which were a diſtin Peo- * See Math: ple from the Mi…
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ſoour of its place, as being the foundation of all the following Events, which are here placed together, becauſe they followed the ſelling of Joſeph. Judah, and Er, and Onan, and afterwards Pharez, are ſuppoſed each to Marry,and have a Child art fourteen years old, which though unufual, wants not Examples both in S…
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s When many days had paſſed, and Shelzh, tho grown, was not iven to Tamar. # To Feaſt and rejoyce with them at that time, as the manner was then and afterwards: See 1 Sam: 25:36. u A place not far from Adullam ; of which See Jof: 15: 57. | 13 And it was told Tamar, ſaying, behold thy fa- ther-in-law goeth up to Ti…
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h In rcken of his being the firſt-born, which the confidently ex- | petted he would be. | . 29 And it came to paſs, as he drew back his hand, that behold his brother came out : and ſhe ſaid, F How haſt thou broken forth ? this breach be upon thee z : therefore his name was called + * Pharez. z Be impured to thee,…
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in as Witneſſes for her Husbands ſatisfa&tion. o (7.e. ) My Husband, whom ſhe would not name, as it were out of diſdain and high diſpleaſure for being the occaſion of this horrid affront. Thus rhe Pronouns he and they are oft uſed by way of contempt, as Luke 14: 24: and 19: 27: John 7- 11: and 8: 10. p So lhe calls…
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Chap. XL c Heb. Days, 7.e. either many Days, or a Vear, as that word ſometimes ſignifies. See Gene 24. 55. 5 4 And they ereamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream d, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the pr…
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23 Yetdid-notithe chief butler remember Joſeph, but forgat him 5. | s (7.e. ) NegleQed him and his defire ; as men 1 Scripture are oft ſaid to forget God, when they donor remember him fo as to love and obey him, as Pſal; 106. 13,21. Hoſ: 2. 13. C H A Þ. XLL | Pharaoh's two dreams, 1 7. Hes troubled ; ſends for in…
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11 unto Pharaoh. . | , f Or, Priſon, by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole, For it 1s not p: obable that Joſeph, who was now ſo much imployed, and entruſted with all the Affairs of the Priſon and Priſoners, Gen. 39. 21, 22, 23. thould ſtill be kept in the Dungeon properly ſo called. p For till then he ſuffered …
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E Io. 2 7. e. Dire&ion & command. Heb.vouth, which is oft put for com- | T Heb. mand,as Exod. 17. 1. and 38.21. Numb: 3.16,39,8&c. b Or, be fed; they _ armed or ſhall receive their proviſions from thy hand, and according to thy kiſs, diſpoſal. Others, ſball kiſs, viz.the hand, as inferiors uſed to do,up- on their a…
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55 And whenall the land of Egypt was famiſhed the people cried to Pharaoh + for bread : and Pharaoh ſaid unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joſeph: what he ſaith to you, do. | | TAs to their King and common Father. Compare 2 Kings 6: 2. | $56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth ; "Chap, XLI. I Il I…
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Chap. XL | p(4.e.) Is dead, as thar Phraſe often ſignifies both in Scripture, as Gen: 37 30. and 44. 20. Jer. 31.15. Matth: 2. 17, 18. and in other Authors, as Homer, Enripicles, &c. They concluded with great probability that he was dead, chap. 44. 20.. becauſe for twenty years together they had heard nothing, eit…
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f Left this ſhould be a deſign to entrap,and ſo to deſtroy them. + Whoever were the inftruments, they knew that God was the chief Author of this occurrent, and wiſely refle& upon his Provi- dence init,and their own guilt which provoked him againſt them. 29 And they came unto Facob their father, unto the land of Ca…
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