OLD TESTAMENT

Wisdom 17:9

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For even if no troubling thing frighted them, yet, scared with the creeping of vermin and hissing of serpents,

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Verse 9. Fear. the Egyptians kept serpents in their houses, and fed them. But now, neglecting to shew this attention, they were affrighted with their hissing.—Air. Or could live. They seemed to wish for death, ( Calmet.) like the damned, but it fled from them. Bible.

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