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The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the river.”’”
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Verse 18. River. The Samaritan copy repeats here the very words of God to Pharao, as the other speeches are also twice put at length. “Moses and Aaron went to meet Pharao, and said to him, ‘The Lord,’ ” and so forth as verse 16, 18. See Calmet. 11:7. Calmet.—This is very agreeable to the style of Homer; and Kennicott believes that the repetitions have been omitted in the Hebrew for brevity’s sake, (Diss. 1 Chron. p. 383,) and that before the Greek version had been made. Bible.
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