And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fear, and therefore fly from the face of the Lord, ver. 3, 10. (Haydock)
He knew that God is every where, ver. 3., and Psalm cxxxiii. 8. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "I worship. "Fear is often taken in this sense. (Haydock)