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     * sendeth.
     # 30:2-4; Eze 30:9|
     * vessels.
       It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile
       a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus.  See note
       on Ex 2:3.

     * to a nation.
     # 7|
     * scattered and peeled.  or, outspread and polished.
       Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and
       smoothed."  Egypt, which is situated between 24; degrees and 32
       degrees N. lat. and 30; degrees and 33; degrees E. long., being
       bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the
       Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on
       the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750; miles in
       length, (through the middle of which runs the Nile,) in
       breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at
       the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not
       above 250; miles broad.

     * to a people.
     # Ge 10:8,9; 2Ch 12:2-4; 14:9; 16:8|
     * Heb. Meted out and trodden down.  or, that meteth out and
       treadeth down.  Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot.
       This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having
       recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their
       boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed
       their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of
       throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and
       treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.

     * have spoiled.  or, despise.
     # 19:5-7|