OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 25:2

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There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

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Verse 2. Maon. Vat. Septuagint has the same word in the preceding verse, instead of Pharan. Bible.—Possessions. Hebrew “work.” Cattle then formed the chief source of riches. Carmel and Maon were not far from Pharan, in Arabia. Calmet.

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