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They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD, our God.’
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Verse 18. Called. Sam. and Septuagint “hath been invoked upon us.” Hebrew “hath occurred, or appeared to us.” Bible.—Journey, to Sinai, which was about this distance, to go straight. But the Israelites spent 48 days in arriving at it by a circuitous road. Calmet.—In Hebrew they ask, “Let us go, we beseech thee.” They do not tell a lie, but withhold the truth. Menochius.
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