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but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
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Verse 18. Armed, in order of battle. Hebrew chamushim, “by fives,” or in five battalions. Joshua 1:14. Judith 8:11. Calmet.—Calvin asks where the Hebrews could procure arms, as if to cavil with this translation. But surely they might get them in the same manner as the vessels of gold; and they undoubtedly were not destitute of arms when they encountered the Amalecites, verse 17. Bible.
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