39:19 When his master heard his wife say, 4 “This is the way 5 your slave treated me,” 6 he became furious. 7
1 sn Deborah. This woman had been Rebekah’s nurse, but later attached herself to Jacob. She must have been about one hundred and eighty years old when she died.
2 tn “and he called its name.” There is no expressed subject, so the verb can be translated as passive.
3 tn Or “Allon Bacuth,” if one transliterates the Hebrew name (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV). An oak tree was revered in the ancient world and often designated as a shrine or landmark. This one was named for the weeping (mourning) occasioned by the death of Deborah.
4 tn Heb “and when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying.”
5 tn Heb “according to these words.”
6 tn Heb “did to me.”
7 tn Heb “his anger burned.”