Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceedingly beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Linen. Hebrew mossi, ver. 11. (Haydock)
Chaldean understands these ornaments to pertain to the tabernacle, which was set up in the wilderness.
Oil, enjoying a most fertile country, (Calmet) and the noblest sacrifices. (Haydock)
And wast The kingdom had subsisted 1500 years. (Calmet)
Septuagint omit this, for fear of giving umbrage to the Egyptians, according to St. Jerome, as if they could be ignorant of this circumstance. (Calmet)
Grabe supplies, "thou wast directed to the kingdom. "(Haydock)