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Exodus 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary on Exodus 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The Lord shall sever. Compare . There shall nothing die, etc The original is more emphatic, and might be rendered literally—" There shall not die of all that is the children's of Israel a thing."

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