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Wisdom 19:7

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Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen, and dry land rising up out of what had been water, out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,

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Verse 7. Field. Like a meadow, ( Calmet.) germinans, “growing grass.” Septuagint Bible.—Pliny (xiii. 25.) attests, that “the Red Sea, and all the eastern ocean, are full of wood.” The Hebrews passed with as much ease as in a desert, (Psalms 105:9. Isaiah 63:13) or place of pasture, while the sea seemed to be in quest of other channels. Calmet. Genesis 1:9. Bible.

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