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Judges 3:16

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3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. 1  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 6:20

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6:20 God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, 2  and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed. 3 

Judges 6:40

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6:40 That night God did as he asked. 4  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 8:27

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8:27 Gideon used all this to make 5  an ephod, 6  which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites 7  prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it 8  there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 17:5

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17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. 9  He made an ephod 10  and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. 11 
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[3:16]  1 tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

[6:20]  2 tn Heb “Take the meat…and put [it] on this rock.”

[6:20]  3 tn Heb “and he did so.”

[6:40]  3 tn Heb “God did so that night.”

[8:27]  4 tn Heb “made it into.”

[8:27]  5 sn In Exod 28:4-6 and several other texts an ephod is described as a priestly or cultic garment. In some cases an ephod is used to obtain a divine oracle (1 Sam 23:9; 30:7). Here the ephod is made of gold and is described as being quite heavy (70-75 lbs?). Some identify it as an idol, but it was more likely a cultic object fashioned in the form of a garment which was used for oracular purposes. For discussion of the ephod in the OT, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 236-43, and R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 349-52.

[8:27]  6 tn Heb “Israel” (a collective singular).

[8:27]  7 tn The words “by worshiping it” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[17:5]  5 tn Heb “house of God.”

[17:5]  6 sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

[17:5]  7 tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”



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