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“‘“But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.
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Verse 8. Egypt. Their disorders called for such severity. But God was restrained by the dangers ( Calmet.) of blasphemy, and so forth to which the faithful and idolaters would thus have been exposed. Bible.—He saved them as he had promised, though they did not deserve it. Worthington.
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