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They said to them, “May the LORD look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”
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Verse 21. Kill us. You are the occasion of our more cruel treatment. You have made the king have a bad opinion of us. Hebrew “you have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharao.” So Jacob said, (Genesis 34:30,) you have made me stink or become odious. Those who attempt to do a kindness, unsuccessfully, often experience a similar ingratitude. Calmet. 14:11. Menochius. It does not appear from the original, whether the officers or Moses was coming from the king’s presence. They met in some appointed place. Calmet.
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