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Judges 8:24-26
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24 Gideon continued,[a] “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.”[b] (The Midianites[c] had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.”[d] So they[e] spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it. 26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to 1,700 gold shekels.[f] This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry,[g] purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.[h]

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  1. Judges 8:24 tn Heb “said to them.”
  2. Judges 8:24 tn Heb “Give to me, each one, an earring from his plunder.”
  3. Judges 8:24 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Midianites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  4. Judges 8:25 tn Heb “We will indeed give.”
  5. Judges 8:25 tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.
  6. Judges 8:26 sn 1,700 gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.
  7. Judges 8:26 tn Or “pendants.”
  8. Judges 8:26 tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”
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