19
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
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Verse 19. From thee, by decapitation. This was customary, when a person’s body was to be hung on the cross or gibbet. Deuteronomy 21:22. Joshua 10:26. Lament. 5:12. 1 Kennicott. 31:10.—Birds. So Horace says, pasces in cruce corvos.
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