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Now then, stand here, so that I may present the case against you before the Lord on the basis of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did for you and for your fathers.

When Jacob had gone down into Egypt,[a] your fathers cried out to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

But they forgot the Lord their God, so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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  1. 1 Samuel 12:8 The Greek text includes words missing from the Hebrew. They are marked by half-brackets: When Jacob had gone down into Egypt, ⎣and Egypt humbled them,. . .⎦ In the Hebrew word order, the double occurrence of Egypt could have triggered a skip by a scribe.