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I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
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Verse 8. Spacious, compared with that of Gessen. Chanaan was not above 210 miles long, and 70 broad. Brocard. S. Jerom does not allow so much. Hecateus says that the Jews had three million acres of excellent land.—Milk and honey are still very plentiful in Palestine, ( Calmet.) though the country has lost much of its ancient beauty and luxuriance, for want of cultivation. The Sam. and Septuagint number the Gergesites among the rest of the Chanaanites.
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