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1 tn Heb “a man of worthlessness.”

2 tn The expression used here יְמִינִי (yÿmini) is a short form of the more common “Benjamin.” It appears elsewhere in 1 Samuel 9:4 and Esther 2:5. Cf. 1 Samuel 9:1.

3 tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet). So also v. 22.

4 tc The MT reads לְאֹהָלָיו (lÿ’ohalav, “to his tents”). For a similar idiom, see 19:9. An ancient scribal tradition understands the reading to be לְאלֹהָיו (le’lohav, “to his gods”). The word is a tiqqun sopherim, and the scribes indicate that they changed the word from “gods” to “tents” so as to soften its theological implications. In a consonantal Hebrew text the change involved only the metathesis of two letters.

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5 tn Heb “went up from after.”

6 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

7 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

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8 tn Heb “house.”

9 tn Heb “and he placed them in a guarded house.”

10 tn Heb “he did not come to them”; NAB “has no further relations with them”; NIV “did not lie with them”; TEV “did not have intercourse with them”; NLT “would no longer sleep with them.”

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