1 Samuel 20:19-21
Common English Bible
19 The day after tomorrow, go all the way to the spot where you hid on the day of the incident, and stay close to that mound.[a] 20 On the third day I will shoot an arrow to the side of the mound as if aiming at a target.[b] 21 Then I’ll send the servant boy, saying, ‘Go retrieve the arrow.’ If I yell to the boy, ‘Hey! The arrow is on this side of you. Get it!’ then you can come out because it will be safe for you. There won’t be any trouble—I make a pledge on the Lord’s life.
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- 1 Samuel 20:19 LXX; MT to the stone Ezel; cf 20:41
- 1 Samuel 20:20 Correction; MT arrows (plural here and in 20:21-22, 36, 38 Qere)
1 Samuel 20:19-21
New International Version
19 The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid(A) when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel. 20 I will shoot three arrows(B) to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target. 21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,’ then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.
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