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Judges 6:27-29
Lexham English Bible
Judges 6:27-29
Lexham English Bible
27 Gideon took ten men from his servants, and he did just as Yahweh told him;[a] and because he was too afraid of his father’s family[b] and the men of the city to do it during the day, he did it during night.
Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal
28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning, look, the altar of Baal and the Asherah[c] that was beside it were cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built. 29 And they said to one another,[d] “Who did this thing?” So they searched and inquired, and they said, “Gideon son of Jehoash did this thing.”
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- Judges 6:27 Or “spoke to him”
- Judges 6:27 Literally “father’s house”
- Judges 6:28 An Asherah is a cultic pole set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah
- Judges 6:29 Literally “And each man to his neighbor said”
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