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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Exodus 12:26

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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when your children shall say, . . . What mean ye by this service--Independently of some observances which were not afterwards repeated, the usages practised at this yearly commemorative feast were so peculiar that the curiosity of the young would be stimulated, and thus parents had an excellent opportunity, which they were enjoined to embrace, for instructing each rising generation in the origin and leading facts of the national faith.
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