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The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
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Verse 1. Magdal, the third station of the Israelites, (Exodus 14:2) or another “tower” twelve miles from Pelusium. Calmet. 46:14.—Memphis, the capital of Nome, near the western banks of the Nile, and famous for its pyramids, which are standing, though the town be no more. Calmet. 46:19.—Phatures; perhaps in higher Egypt. Jeremias might go or send to these cities, this his last prediction, ( Calmet.) to reclaim his countrymen from idolatry. Bible.
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