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But the LORD has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.
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Verse 20. Furnace. This expression gives us some idea of the cruelties to which the Hebrews had been exposed, 3 Kennicott. 8:41. Iron and other metals were melted in furnaces: Hebrew cur. Ezekiel 22:20. In the countries of the East, workmen have them in the middle of their shops, and sit round them to work. Bellon. iii. 45. Calmet.
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