◄ Judges 8:25 ►
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Good News Translation
The people answered, "We'll be glad to give them to you." They spread out a cloth, and everyone put on it the earrings that he had taken.

New Revised Standard Version
“We will willingly give them,” they answered. So they spread a garment, and each threw into it an earring he had taken as booty.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelite soldiers replied, "Of course we will give you the earrings." Then they spread out a robe on the ground and tossed the earrings on it.

New American Bible
“We will certainly give them,” they replied, and they spread out a cloak into which everyone threw a ring from his spoils.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.

Context
Gideon's Ephod
…24And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. 25They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.26And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and purple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides the golden chains that were about the camels necks.…
Cross References
Genesis 35:4
So they gave him all the strange gods they had, and the earrings which were in their ears: and he buried them under the turpentine tree, that is behind the city of Sichem.

Judges 8:24
And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.

Judges 8:26
And the weight of the earlets that he requested, was a thousand seven hundred sicles of gold, besides the ornaments, and jewels, and purple raiment, which the kings of Madian were wont to use, and besides the golden chains that were about the camels necks.

Judges 8:24
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