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19 He asked her, “Please give me some water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up. 20 He told her, “Stand in the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks ‘Is anybody here?’ say ‘No’.”

21 But Heber’s wife Jael grabbed a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other,[a] crept up to him quietly, and drove the tent peg right through his temple into the ground below after he had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion. That’s how[b] he died.

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  1. Judges 4:21 The Heb. lacks in the other
  2. Judges 4:21 The Heb. lacks That’s how