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and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with captains over all of them.
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Verse 7. Captains. Septuagint “Tristatas.” Three men rode on every chariot, which was armed with scythes, to cut down all that came within contact, the chief warrior, with his armour bearer and charioteer. Saint Gregory Nys. Bible.—Or these three captains may very probably be the three chief officers of state, ( Calmet.) or the generals of cavalry, and of infantry, and the chief treasurer, or receiver of taxes, principes equitum peditumque erant, & tributorum. Saint Jerome
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