Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ¹  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ²  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 6:8-9

6:8 he ³  sent a prophet ⁴  to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt ⁵  and took you out of that place of slavery. ⁶  6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power ⁷  and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight ⁸  said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since ⁹  the Israelites left the land of Egypt! ¹⁰  Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

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¹ tn Or “fathers.”

² tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

³ tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

⁵ tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

⁶ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

⁷ tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁸ tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁹ tn Heb “from the day.”

¹⁰ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”