OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 25:22

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The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of the LORD.

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Verse 22. To be so. That is, if I must die, and my children also. She feared the worst; and immediately had recourse to the Lord, either in her oratory, or at one of his altars erected by Abraham; and received a gracious answer from him by means of an angel. Bible.—Others think she consulted Melchisedech at Mount Moria. Menochius.

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