Judges 6:8

6:8 he ¹  sent a prophet ²  to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt ³  and took you out of that place of slavery. ⁴ 

Judges 10:10

10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped ⁵  the Baals.”

Judges 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ⁶  Micah’s carved image ⁷  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ⁸  was in Shiloh.

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¹ tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

³ 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”]).

⁴ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

⁵ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁶ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

⁷ tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

⁸ tn Heb “the house of God.”