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Exodus 1:16

Exodus 1:16

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

and see them: Or, rather, "and ye see them by the stone-troughs;" for so ovnayim:, from aven:, a stone, seems to signify (compare ), in which they washed the new-born infants. See this subject fully illustrated in Fragments to Calmet, Nos. 312, 313.

then ye shall: ; ;

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