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But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.
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Verse 8. Field. It was usual to cover them up carefully. Chardin.—Avarice sometimes will set bounds to cruelty, when nothing else will. Worthington.
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