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your little ones, your wives, and the foreigners who are in the middle of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water,
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Verse 11. Besides, (exceptis,) which may signify all were present; or rather that the strangers of Egypt, and so forth who were employed in servile offices, were alone excluded, as having no part in the covenant made with the Israelites. Calmet.—S. Jerom seems to have rendered min, præter, in the latter sense; but the Chal. Septuagint and so forth take it in the former, as if none at all were absent, from the highest to the lowest. Menochius.
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