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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Exodus 4:9

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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take of the water of the river--Nile. Those miracles, two of which were wrought then, and the third to be performed on his arrival in Goshen, were at first designed to encourage him as satisfactory proofs of his divine mission, and to be repeated for the special confirmation of his embassy before the Israelites.
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