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Deuteronomy 13:13

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13:13 some evil people 1  have departed from among you to entice the inhabitants of their cities, 2  saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods” (whom you have not known before). 3 

1 tn Heb “men, sons of Belial.” The Hebrew term בְּלִיַּעַל (bÿliyyaal) has the idea of worthlessness, without morals or scruples (HALOT 133-34 s.v.). Cf. NAB, NRSV “scoundrels”; TEV, CEV “worthless people”; NLT “worthless rabble.”

2 tc The LXX and Tg read “your” for the MT’s “their.”

3 tn The translation understands the relative clause as a statement by Moses, not as part of the quotation from the evildoers. See also v. 2.



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