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Genesis 35:8

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35:8 (Deborah, 1  Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel; thus it was named 2  Oak of Weeping.) 3 

Genesis 39:19

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39:19 When his master heard his wife say, 4  “This is the way 5  your slave treated me,” 6  he became furious. 7 

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[35:8]  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.

[35:8]  2 tn “and he called its name.” There is no expressed subject, so the verb can be translated as passive.

[35:8]  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.

[39:19]  4 tn Heb “and when his master heard the words of his wife which she spoke to him, saying.”

[39:19]  5 tn Heb “according to these words.”

[39:19]  6 tn Heb “did to me.”

[39:19]  7 tn Heb “his anger burned.”



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