OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 44:15

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Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

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Verse 15. The science of divining. He speaks of himself according to what he was esteemed in that kingdom. And, indeed, he being truly a prophet, knew more without comparison than any of the Egyptian sorcerers. Challoner.—Hebrew Septuagint and Chal. “knew ye not that a man like me would divine with certainty,” and presently discover any fraud? Calmet.

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