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38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-45)After the history of the patriarchs follows here the history of the people of Israel, when they grew into a nation. I. Their affliction in Egypt (Ps. 105:25): He turned the heart of the Egyptians, who had protected them, to hate them and deal subtilely with them. God’s goodness to his people exasperated the Egyptians against them; and, though their old antipathy to the Hebrews (which we read of Ge…
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