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Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned, and to go into the land of Canaan. They lived there, and prospered with gold and silver, and with exceedingly much cattle.
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Verse 9. Heaven. Greek adds, “the God whom they had known, and they (the Chaldean idolaters) cast them out from the face of the gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and dwelt there many days: ( Bible. that is, about two years. Calmet.) and their God commanded them to leave their abode, and to go into the land of Chanaan; and they dwelt there, and were enriched; … and when,” and so forth—There. Greek “and where there till they returned; and there they became innumerable.” Bible.
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