10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.”

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10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,(A) Mahlon’s widow, as my wife,(B) in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown.(C) Today you are witnesses!(D)

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David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of people who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?

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He said to Saul, “Why do you listen(A) when men say, ‘David is bent on harming(B) you’?

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13 Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.(A)

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13 May his descendants be cut off,(A)
    their names blotted out(B) from the next generation.

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19 The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.

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19 The earth is broken up,(A)
    the earth is split asunder,(B)
    the earth is violently shaken.

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I will give them, in my house and within my walls,
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters.
I will give each of them an everlasting name
that will never be cut off.(A)

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to them I will give within my temple and its walls(A)
    a memorial(B) and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name(C)
    that will endure forever.(D)

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19 for I was like a docile[a] lamb led to slaughter.(A)
I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me:
“Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit;[b]
let’s cut him off from the land of the living(B)
so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:19 Or pet
  2. 11:19 Lit bread

19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;(A) I did not realize that they had plotted(B) against me, saying,

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;
    let us cut him off from the land of the living,(C)
    that his name be remembered(D) no more.”

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