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Victor Hamilton, a highly regarded Old Testament scholar with over 30 years’ experience in the classroom, offers a comprehensive exegesis of the book of Exodus. Written in a clear and accessible style, this major, up-to-date, evangelical, exegetical commentary opens up the riches of the book of Exodus. Hamilton relates Exodus to the rest of Scripture and includes his own translation of the text....

In some instances it seems to be a precise number, and in others it symbolizes a large group of people. In a Canaanite text from Ugarit that describes Baal as preparing a divine banquet (KTU 1.4 vi:46), this line appears: “Baal/Hadad invites the seventy sons of Athirat / he supplies the gods with rams (and) with wine.” Parker (1997: 134, 171n135) adds this observation, “The number of gods perhaps survive in the later Jewish notion of the seventy angels, one for each of the seventy nations ([Babylonian
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