Judges 8
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 8:24-27

24Yet Gideon said to them, “I would 1request of you, that each of you give me 2an earring from his spoil.” (For they had gold earrings, because they were 3Ishmaelites.)

25They said, “We will surely give them.” So they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil.

26The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the neck bands that were on their camels’ necks.

27Gideon made it into 4an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and all Israel played the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 8:24 Lit request a request ↩
  2. 2. Judges 8:24 Or a nose ring ↩
  3. 3. Judges 8:24 Gen 25:13-16 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 8:27 Ex 28:6-35; Judg 17:5; 18:14-20 ↩

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