OLD TESTAMENT

Job 9:30

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30

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

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Verse 30. Snow. Nitre bring off the dirt better. Chal. “soap.” Hebrew bor, is supposed by many to be the Borith of Jeremiah 2:22. Snow-water was also used through delicacy in summer. Petron. Sat.

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