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10 You will cultivate[a] the land for him—you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce[b] and it will be[c] food for your master’s grandson to eat.[d] But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 9:10 tn Heb “work.”
  2. 2 Samuel 9:10 tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.
  3. 2 Samuel 9:10 tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.
  4. 2 Samuel 9:10 tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson(A) may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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