40
Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
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Verse 40. Egypt. Sam. and Septuagint add, “and in the land of Chanaan, they and their fathers,” dating from the departure of Abraham from Haran in his 75th year; from which period, till Jacob’s going into Egypt, 215 years elapsed. Kennicott produces this instance, as a proof that the Hebrew text is defective: Dis. 1. p. 399. Josephus ii. 15. Saint Augustine q. 47. and others, admit this addition as genuine; which, however we have observed on Genesis, is rejected by Ayrolus, Tournemine, and so forth Bible.
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