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For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Very. Syr. “and our brethren are too numerous” to find meat.—For, and so forth Hebrew Septuagint and so forth “by force.” Abenezra, and so forth—Yet most people explain it in the sense of the Vulg. It was permitted to sell children in extreme distress, Exodus 21:7. Grot. Calmet.
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