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Judges 8:16

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the elders: Judges 8:7; Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 19:29; Ezra 2:6

taught: Heb. made to know, Instead of wyyoda:, Houbigant, Lev. Clerc, and others read wyyadosh:, "and he tore or threshed;" and this is not only agreeable to what Gideon threatened (Judges 8:7), but is supported by the LXX Vulgate, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic. The Hebrew Text might easily have been corrupted simply by the change of ωΡ:, shin:, into ς:, ayin:, letters very similar to each other.

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