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Judges 8:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then he said to them, ‘Let me make a request of you: Everyone give me an earring from his plunder.’ Now the enemy had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.

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These are the names of Ishmael’s sons; their names according to the family records are Nebaioth, Ishmael’s firstborn, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,


When Midianite  traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.


They sat down to eat a meal,  and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead.  Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.


The king of Israel answered, ‘Say this: “Don’t let the one who puts on his armour boast  like the one who takes it off.” ’


Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t know where they are from.’


So all the people took off the gold rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.


The Israelites acted on Moses’s word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold items and for clothing.


Then he brought out objects of silver and gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.


As the camels finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing ten shekels of gold.


Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.


They said, ‘We agree to give them.’ So they spread out a cloak, and everyone threw an earring from his plunder on it.


These are the family records  of Abraham’s son Ishmael,  whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham.


He took the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf. Then they said, ‘Israel, these are your gods,  who brought you up from the land of Egypt! ’


They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, “Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” ’


He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty, but  they made their detestable images from them, their abhorrent things. Therefore, I have made these into something filthy to them.





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