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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Deuteronomy 33:22

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Dan is a lion's whelp--His proper settlement in the south of Canaan being too small, he by a sudden and successful irruption, established a colony in the northern extremity of the land. This might well be described as the leap of a young lion from the hills of Bashan.
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