THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS
Fortress Commentary on the Bible Study Edition

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Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.

Excerpted from the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014); Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page Jr., and Matthew J. M. Coomber, volume editors.

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