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Judges 6:6-8
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Judges 6:6-8
New English Translation
6 Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.
7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian, 8 the Lord sent a prophet[a] to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘I brought you up from Egypt[b] and took you out of that place of slavery.[c]
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- Judges 6:8 tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.
- Judges 6:8 tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (meʾerets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).
- Judges 6:8 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
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