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That you and your children might be sustained and preserved in this time of famine, and afterwards abundantly multiplied, as God hath promised.
By a great deliverance, or, for a great remnant, or escaping, i.e. that you who are now but a handful, escaping this danger, may grow into a vast multitude. The word evasion, or escaping, is here put for the persons that do escape, as it is 2Ch_30:6 Isa_10:20; and as captivity is oft put for the captives, as it is Num_21:1 Deu_21:10. And so what was said in the former clause is repeated in this with all emphatical addition.