/ Heb. And. which conneQ&s the Words; and though we read ic Then, this doth not point out the Time when God ſpakethus, though tis certain, when he had brought them our of Egypt he gave them his Ordinances and Laws of Worſhip : Nay, tis ſufficiently included, in that they were to go out that they might ſerve the Lord. 7 Let every one of you, Man by Man, and Family by Family, caſt away with Abhtorrence and Indignation ; the word is uſed. ch. 18, 31. & Whick your Eyes ſhould have abhorred, but you rather lifted up your Eyss to them, and looked for Help from them, and it includes their own voluntary AR in this Idolatry. / This explains the former Paſlige. 7 Which were in Veneration among the Egyp:ians, and with whoſe Worſhip too many of them had been enſnared and polluted whilethcy were iN Ezypr. z The only true God, and therefore you ſhould wor- ſhip none other. « See wer. 6. let. 2. You are my Covenant-People, and therefore ought to have no other God, as Exod. 2o. 3. Thus God prepared them by his Mercies, and by his Law, for himſelf.
8 But they p rebelled againſt q me, and r would not hearken unto me : «they did not every man caſt away ti abominations of their Eyes, neither did they forſake the idols of Egypt. Then TI faid, 7 I will » pour out my fury x upon them, to y accompliſh my anger againſt them in the midlt of theland of Egypt z.
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