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Whose father was an Egyptian: this circumstance seems noted, partly to show the danger of marriages with persons of wicked principles or practices, wherein the children, as one wittily and truly observes, like the conclusion, do commonly follow the worse part, and are more easily taught by word or example to do ten things agreeable to their corrupt natures, than one thing contrary to it; and partly by this severity against him who was a stranger by the father, and an Israelite by the mother, to show that God would not have this sin to go unpunished amongst his people, whatsoever he was that committed it.
Went out, to wit, out of Egypt, being one of that mixed multitude which came out with the Israelites, Exo_12:38. It is probable this was done when the Israelites were near Sinai.
Strove together: this is added to show that provocation to sin is no justification of sin.