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Loins, Heb. thigh, which is here put for the secret parts between the thighs, which are called sometimes the feet, as Gen_49:10 Deu_28:57 Eze_16:25, for the like reason, because they are between the feet. From this eastern manner of speech came that passage in the Greek fables, concerning Bacchus being born out of Jupiter’s thigh.
Threescore and six; so many they are, excluding Jacob, as the common parent, and Joseph and his two sons, as being in Egypt before Jacob’s coming thither; which four being included they make up seventy, as it is Gen_46:27.