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Job 2:7

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sore boils: Shechin ra:, supposed to be the Judham:, or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching. Job 30:17-19, Job 30:30; Exodus 9:9-11; Deuteronomy 28:27, Deuteronomy 28:35; Revelation 16:11

from the sole: Isaiah 1:6, Isaiah 3:17

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