Wisdom 11:15
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Second Example: Animals Punish the Egyptians and Benefit the Israelites
15 In return for their senseless, wicked thoughts,
which misled them into worshiping dumb[a] serpents and worthless insects,
You sent upon them swarms of dumb creatures for vengeance;(A)
Footnotes
- 11:15 Dumb: that is, irrational.
Exodus 8:10
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10 Heaps of them were piled up, and the land stank.
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Exodus 16:3
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3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died at the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, as we sat by our kettles of meat and ate our fill of bread! But you have led us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of famine!”
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