Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, from the hewer of your wood unto the drawer of your water:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Besides, (exceptis,) which may signify all were present; or rather that the strangers of Egypt, who were employed in servile offices, were alone excluded, as having no part in the covenant made with the Israelites. (Calmet)
St. Jerome seems to have rendered min, præter, in the latter sense; but the Chaldean, Septuagint, take it in the former, as if none at all were absent, from the highest to the lowest. (Menochius)