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“Tell[a] all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want[b] to have seventy men, all Jerub Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:2 tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”
  2. Judges 9:2 tn Heb “What good is it to you?”
  3. Judges 9:2 tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

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