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Judges 9:34-36
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Judges 9:34-36
New English Translation
34 So Abimelech and all his men came up[a] at night and set an ambush outside Shechem; they divided into[b] four units. 35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places. 36 Gaal saw the men[c] and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills—it just looks like men.”[d]
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- Judges 9:34 tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”
- Judges 9:34 tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
- Judges 9:36 tn Heb “the people” (also in vv. 38, 43, 48). These were warriors, so “men” has been used in the translation, since in ancient Israelite culture soldiers would have been exclusively males.
- Judges 9:36 tn Heb “the shadow on the hills you are seeing, like men.”
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