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37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center[a] of the land. A unit[b] is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”[c]

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  1. Judges 9:37 tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.
  2. Judges 9:37 tn Heb “head.”
  3. Judges 9:37 tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (HebElon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

37 But Gaal spoke up again: “Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[a] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners’ tree.”

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  1. Judges 9:37 The Hebrew for this phrase means the navel of the earth.