And the Lord, &c.— I should be for rendering the vau here, for, instead of and, as the French version has it, car; because this second verse gives the reason why Isaac went to Gerar, and not to AEgypt, FOR the Lord HAD appeared to him, &c. To pretend to assign reasons why the Lord would not permit him to go to AEgypt, is fruitless and absurd.
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Genesis 26:2
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: