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Exodus 3:8Exod.3.8

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Je suis descendu pour le délivrer de la main des Egyptiens, et pour le faire monter de ce pays dans un bon et vaste pays, dans un pays où coulent le lait et le miel, dans les lieux qu'habitent les Cananéens, les Héthiens, les Amoréens, les Phéréziens, les Héviens et les Jébusiens.

KJV

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    , at the very outset of the law, the people were invited to the earthly kingdom of the Chananaeans ( Ex. 3:8 , 17 ). Again it may be an intelligible and heavenly good: and to this, man is ordained by the New Law. Wherefore, at the very beginning of His preaching, Christ invited m…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 131 (Migne)

    modat humanis, sicut ad Moysen dixit: Videns vidi afflictionem populi mei, et descendi liberare eos (Exod. III, 8) . Et de Sodomitis dictum est: Descendam, et videbo utrum eum clamorem qui venit ad me opere compleverint (Gen. XVIII, 21) . Et nota in sequentibus hic mysterium Tr…

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