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Joshua 7:21

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I saw: Genesis 3:6, Genesis 6:2; 2 Samuel 11:2; Job 31:1; Psalms 119:37; Proverbs 23:31, Proverbs 28:22; Matthew 5:28-29; 1 John 2:15-16

Babylonish garment: Addereth shinâr:, "a splendid or costly robe of Shinar," the plain in which Babylon stood. Bochart and Calmet have shewn at large, that Babylonish robes were very splendid, and in high reputation. Calmet says, they are generally allowed to have been of various colours, though some suppose they were woven thus; others, that they were embroidered with the needle; and others, that they were painted. Silius Italicus seems to think they were woven. Martial supposes them to have been embroidered with the needle; and Pliny and Apuleius speak of them as painted. Genesis 10:10 *marg.

wedge: Heb. tongue

I coveted: Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 7:25; 1 Kings 21:1-2; 2 Kings 5:20-27; Habakkuk 2:9; Luke 12:15; Romans 7:7-8; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Timothy 6:9-10; Hebrews 13:5; 2 Peter 2:15

took them: Proverbs 4:23; Micah 2:1-2; James 1:15

they are hid: 2 Samuel 11:6-17; 2 Kings 5:24-25; Isaiah 28:15, Isaiah 29:15; Luke 12:2

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