OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 26:12

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Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

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Verse 12. And the Lord. This is not mentioned as a miracle; for Egypt and many other countries produced 100 fold. Pliny xviii. 10. says, some parts of Africa rendered 150 times as much as was sowed. The famine had now ceased. Calmet.

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