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the Lord sent a prophet[a] to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘I brought you up from Egypt[b] and took you out of that place of slavery.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:8 tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.
  2. Judges 6:8 tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (meʾerets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).
  3. Judges 6:8 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”