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You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
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Verse 5. The Syrian. Laban. See Genesis 27. Challoner.—Hebrew “My father was a Syrian, poor, (or ready to perish) and he went down,” and so forth The ancestors of Jacob had, in effect, come from beyond the Euphrates, and he had dwelt in Mesopotamia for twenty years. But the translation of the Septuagint seems preferable, “My father abandoned (apebalen) Syria.” Calmet.
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