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For this mark of insult cf. 2 Sam. x. 4 (Hanun's treatment of David's embassy). Wiedemann shows that some of the Egyptian soldiers, especially the police, wore beards, and that H. therefore is not to be charged with introducing a foreign detail into the story.

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