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As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. People, “he transplanted” from, and so forth as the Hebrew Arab. and so forth now read, by the change of one letter. Herodotus, ii. 108, says, the same person has never a field there two years together. Diodorus 1. also attests, that individuals have no property in Egypt, the land being divided among the priests, the king, and the military. Tradesmen always follow their father’s profession, which makes them very skilful.
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