* because they came.
Or rather, "when [k(8c79) [] {(kee)} they
came down to take away their cattle;" for it does not appear
that the sons of Ephraim were the aggressors, but the men of
Gath, who appear to have been born in Egypt. This is the only
place in the Sacred Writings where this piece of history is
mentioned, and the transaction seems to have happened before
the Israelites came out of Egypt; for it appears from the
following verse, that Ephraim was alive when these children of
his were slain.
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