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Attributed commentary excerpt

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 5:12

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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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ק לקשׁשׁ: "to gather stubble for straw;" not "stubble for, in the sense of instead of straw," for ל is not equivalent to תּחת but to gather the stubble left in the fields for the chopped straw required for the bricks. Exodus 5:13
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