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Judges 8:27-29
New Catholic Bible
Judges 8:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 Gideon had the gold made into an ephod[a] which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. All of Israel prostituted itself by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household. 28 This is how Midian was subjected to the Israelites, so that they did not lift up their heads again. During Gideon’s lifetime there was peace in the land, for forty years.
29 Abimelech, Son of Gideon. Jerubbaal went to his home and lived there.
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- Judges 8:27 Ephod: either a kind of idol or, more probably, an ephod used in divination (see Ex 28:4) as in 1 Sam 2:28, although here it draws the people to illicit worship.
