25 They waited to the point of embarrassment,(A) but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.

26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah. 27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet(B) in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

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