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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

PD · Francis Patrick Kenrick, Baltimore, 1849–1860 (Gospels 1849; Acts, Epistles & Apocalypse 1851; Psalms, Wisdom books & Canticle 1857; Job & the Prophets 1859; Pentateuch 1860)
Chapter 12

Genesis 12

H. "The souls which they made:'* the children born to them ; probably the daughters of Lot or the si ares which they purchased.

The city was originally called Lusa. Bethel may have been substituted by some writer after Moses, in order to render the history intelligible. Infra 28 : 19.

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