Exodus 32:27 New English Translation
27 and he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said ‘Each man fasten[a] his sword on his side, and go back and forth[b] from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”[c]
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- Exodus 32:27 tn Heb “put.”
- Exodus 32:27 tn The two imperatives form a verbal hendiadys: “pass over and return,” meaning, “go back and forth” throughout the camp.
- Exodus 32:27 tn The phrases have “and kill a man his brother, and a man his companion, and a man his neighbor.” The instructions were probably intended to mean that they should kill leaders they knew to be guilty because they had been seen or because they failed the water test—whoever they were.
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