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youths in whom was no defect, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and who had the ability to serve in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
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Verse 4. Blemish. Deformed people were excluded the throne, or the king’s presence. Procop. 1.—Science; well educated, or apt to learn. They were first to be taught the Chaldee letters, which then differed from the Hebrew. Calmet.
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