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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 46:34

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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46:34 In contrast to the syncretistic Canaanites, who would have absorbed the Israelites had they stayed in Canaan, Egyptians detested Semitic shepherds out of a sense of ethnic superiority and observed a strict segregation (see 43:32). When Jacob’s family settled in Egypt, this separation would allow the people to grow into a great nation without losing their identity.
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