| Deuteronomy 29:11
| Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:
| Besides, (exceptis,) which may signify all were present; or rather that the strangers of Egypt, etc., who were employed in servile offices, were alone excluded, as having no part in the covenant made with the Israelites. (Calmet) --- St. Jerome seems to have rendered min, praeter, in the latter sense; but the Chaldean, Septuagint, etc., take it in the former, as if none at all were absent, from the highest to the lowest. (Menochius)
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