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Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
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Verse 16. Depart. Instead of repressing the outrages of his subjects, the king enters into their jealousies, and banishes a wealthy person, ( Bible.) as the Athenians so frequently did afterwards with respect to their best citizens. Arist. Polit. iii. 9.—And Pharao used the same pretext, when he persecuted the Hebrews. Calmet.
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