John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 32:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thirty milch camels with their colts, etc.] Milch camels were in great esteem in the eastern countries; their milk being, as Aristotle f1533 and Pliny f1534 say, the sweetest of all milk: forty kine and ten bulls; one bull to ten cows; the same proportion as in the goats and rams: twenty she asses and ten foals; and supposing thirty colts belonging to the camels; the present consisted of five hundred and eighty head of cattle: a large number to spare out of his flocks and herds, that he had acquired in six years’ time; and showed a generous disposition as well as prudence, to part with so much in order to secure the rest.

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