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Genesis 26:18

Genesis 26:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

in the days: Houbigant contends, that instead of bimey:, "in the days," we should read, avdey:, "servants;" agreeably to the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "And Isaac digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had digged."

and he: ; ; ; ;

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