25 And they answered, We will give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.

26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he required, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, beside collars [a]and jewels, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about the camels’ necks.

27 And Gideon made an [b]Ephod thereof, and put it in Ophrah his city: and all Israel went a whoring there after it, which was the destruction of Gideon and his house.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 8:26 Or, sweet balls.
  2. Judges 8:27 That is, such things as pertained to the use of the Tabernacle. See more of Ephod, Exod. 28:4,6; 1 Sam. 2:18 and 2 Sam. 6:14 and Judg. 17:5.

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