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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Exodus 12:30

And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for [there was] (o) not a house where [there was] not one dead.

(o) Of these houses, in which any first born lived, either of men of beasts.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּ֨קָם פַּרְעֹ֜ה לַ֗יְלָה ה֤וּא וְ כָל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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