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are not many more, and that of those there should 

 be so few of importance. It is, however, the 

 duty of every body to make known those errors, 

 slight as they are, and to try to remove all 

 blemishes from a work of such high importance, 

 as a correct translation in our own language. 

 Words have now a much more definite meaning 

 than they had a few centuries ago; and some 

 words may then have fairly conveyed the original 

 sense which is now greatly perverted by their 

 continuance. 



" For instance, in Exodus iii. 22, it appears 

 that every woman is enjoined to borrow of her 

 neighbour valuable jewels and raiment, and then 

 to keep possession of them. But children," said 

 he, " should be taught that the Hebrew word, 

 which our translators have rendered borrow, 

 signifies to ask as a gift. It is the very word 

 used in Psalm ii. 8, ' Ask of me, and I shall 

 give thee the heathen for thine inheritance;' and 

 the fact was this: God told Moses that the 

 Israelites should not go out of Egypt empty, 

 but that every woman should ask her neighbour 

 for certain valuable presents, and that He would 

 dispose the Egyptians to give them. And all 

 this seems to have been perfectly just, when you 

 consider the slavery that the Israelites had been 

 obliged to endure, and the hardships which had 

 been inflicted on them, riot only by the king, but 



