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You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,
removing them far from their own country.[a]

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  1. Joel 3:6 tn Heb “border.”

I will sell your sons and daughters to[a] the people of Judah.[b]
They will sell them to the Sabeans,[c] a nation far away.
Indeed, the Lord has spoken.

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  1. Joel 3:8 tn Heb “into the hand of.”
  2. Joel 3:8 tn Heb “the sons of Judah.”
  3. Joel 3:8 sn The Sabeans were Arabian merchants who were influential along the ancient caravan routes that traveled through Arabia. See also Job 1:15; Isa 43:3; 45:14; Ps 72:10.

19 Egypt will be desolate
and Edom will be a desolate wilderness,
because of the violence they did to the people of Judah,[a]
in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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  1. Joel 3:19 tn Heb “violence of the sons of Judah.” The phrase “of the sons of Judah” is an objective genitive (cf. KJV “the violence against the children of Judah,” NAB, NIV, NRSV “violence done to the people of Judah”). It refers to injustices committed against the Judeans, not violence that the Judeans themselves had committed against others.