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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Deuteronomy 33:19

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand--Both tribes should traffic with the Phœnicians in gold and silver, pearl and coral, especially in murex, the shellfish that yielded the famous Tyrian dye, and in glass, which was manufactured from the sand of the river Belus, in their immediate neighborhood.
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