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They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.
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Verse 11. Lot. Lit. “line,” with which land was measured. Calmet.—The descendants of the patriarchs would never have lost this inheritance if they had observed the law. The promise was therefore conditional; though it was absolute, in as much as all were to be blessed in their seed: as they had begun to be, when Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus.
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