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thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
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Verse 15. Camels. The milk of these animals is most exquisite, being mixed with three parts water. Pliny xi. 41, who says, “They give milk till they be with young again.” The Arabs feed chiefly on their milk and flesh. Saint Jerome c. Jor. ii. The value of all these presents, may give us some idea of the prodigious wealth which God had heaped upon Jacob in the space of six years! Bible.
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