OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 4:9

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Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

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Verse 9. Words. Hebrew also, “things.” Bible.—Both sacred and profane authors use the term of seeing, to denote any of the senses, verse 12. Eschylus (in Prometh.) says, “you shall neither see the form nor the voice of mortals.”

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