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they. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "one".
Bow the knee. This is not Hebrew "tender father", as Authorized Version margin, but Egyptian. Abrek = bend or bow the knee. See Gen_41:40 above, and Psa_2:12. Compare Gen_45:8, and Joh_8:8 in Coptic NT. ("stooped down"). A command still used in Egypt to make camels kneel ("Abrok"). According to Sayce, Abrek is a Sumerian title = -"The Seer". This would demand prostration.