OLD TESTAMENT

Job 1:17

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While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Verse 17. Chaldeans. Some copies of the Septuagint read “horsemen.” These nations inhabited the other side of the Euphrates, but made frequent incursions to plunder their neighbours. Calmet.

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