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Why does the LORD bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
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Verse 3. We may. The Latin MSS. and Bibles before Sixtus V. read “in Egypt, and not in this,” and so forth But the present translation agrees with the Hebrew Septuagint and Chaldee. Calmet.—They obtained what they said they wished for, verse 28 Calmet. 14:29. 26:64. Worthington.—And that. Hebrew and so forth “and wherefore hath God brought us into this land, that we may fall,” and so forth In a rage they attribute a malicious design to God. Calmet.—Better. And who would have given them food in the wilderness? Menochius.
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