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Barnes' Notes on Exodus 8:22

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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I will sever ... - This severance constituted a specific difference between this and the preceding plagues. Pharaoh could not of course attribute the exemption of Goshen from a scourge, which fell on the valley of the Nile, to an Egyptian deity, certainly not to Chepera (see the last note), a special object of worship in Lower Egypt. return to 'Top of Page'
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