the nations …, and established the borders of the peoples according to the number of the 70 souls of Israel which went down into Egypt.” In clause d 𝔊 has κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἀγγέλων θεοῦ, i.e. “according to the number of the sons of God” (אל for ישראל), cf. Gn. 6:2, 4, Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7. If this reading be original (so Cheyne, Job and Sol. p. 81; Cornill, Einl. p. 71; Schultz, OT. Theol. i. 227; Stade, ZATW. v. 300), it will be an anticipation of the later doctrine of guardian-angels, presiding
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