Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Egypt. Samaritan and Septuagint add, "and in the land of Chanaan, they and their fathers "dating from the departure of Abraham from Haran in his 75th year; from which period, till Jacob's going into Egypt, 215 years elapsed. Kennicott produces this instance, as a proof that the Hebrew text is defective: Dis. 1. p. 399. Josephus, ii. 15; St. Augustine, q. 47. and others, admit this addition as genuine; which, however we have observed on Genesis, is rejected by Ayrolus, Tournemine (Haydock)
