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Judges 3:5-7
New English Translation
Judges 3:5-7
New English Translation
5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites;[a] they worshiped[b] their gods as well.
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7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight.[c] They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.[d]
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- Judges 3:6 tn Heb “to their sons.”
- Judges 3:6 tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).
- Judges 3:7 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”
- Judges 3:7 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.
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