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and they made· their life ·bitter with hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all service in the field, with◦ all their service in which they made them serve with severity.
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6662. 'Pithom and Raamses' means the essential nature of them, that is to say, of the teachings composed of falsified truths. This is clear from names in the Word, that they mean the essential nature and the state of the matter under discussion.
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