No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Years, till the third of Cyrus, who gave liberty to all the captives at the beginning of his reign, ver. 13. (Calmet)
Amasis reigned forty-four years in Lower Egypt, (Herodotus iii. 10.) over the few whom Nabuchodonosor spared.