Leviticus 14:17

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The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the priest shall put some of the remainder of the oil that on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the person being cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the priest is to put some of the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering:
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oyle that is in his hand, shall the Priest put vpon the lap of the right eare of him that is to bee clensed, and vpon the thumbe of his right hand, and vpon the great toe of his right foote, where the blood of the trespasse offring was put.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the rest of the oil in his left band, he shall pour upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand and the great toe of his right foot, and upon the blood that was shed for trespass,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    `And of the residue of the oil which `is' on his palm, the priest putteth on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt-offering;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And of the remainder of the oil which [is] on his palm, the priest puts [it] on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt-offering;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The priest will put the rest of the oil in his hand on the tip of the right ear of the person to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. He must put this oil on top of the blood from the guilt offering.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the priest shall put some of the remainder of the oil that on his palm on the lobe of the right ear of the person being cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand, shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The priest will then use some of the rest of the olive oil remaining in his palm on the person being made clean, and put it on top of the blood of the guilt offering. This will be on their right earlobe, on their right thumb, and on the big toe of their right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt-offering.

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תְּנ֞וּךְ
tᵉnûwk
H8571
“lobe of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: perhaps from the same as H594 through the idea of protraction

TWOT: 2527a

tip, lobe (of ear)
  1. וּמִיֶּ֨תֶר yether H3499 “and · from · remainder of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. הַשֶּׁ֜מֶן shemen H8081 “the · fat” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  4. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  5. כַּפּ֗וֹ kaph H3709 “palm · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. יִתֵּ֤ן nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  7. הַכֹּהֵן֙ kôhên H3548 “the · priest” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  9. אֹ֤זֶן ʼôzen H241 “ear of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  10. הַמִּטַּהֵר֙ ṭâhêr H2891 “the · cleansing” Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Hithpael, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. הַיְמָנִ֔ית yᵉmânîy H3233 “the · right hand” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  12. וְעַל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
  13. בֹּ֤הֶן bôhen H931 “thumb of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  14. יָדוֹ֙ yâd H3027 “hand · his” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  15. הַיְמָנִ֔ית yᵉmânîy H3233 “the · right hand” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  16. וְעַל ʻal H5921 “and · upon” Conjunction + Preposition
  17. בֹּ֥הֶן bôhen H931 “thumb of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  18. רַגְל֖וֹ regel H7272 “foot · his” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  19. הַיְמָנִ֑ית yᵉmânîy H3233 “the · right hand” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  20. עַ֖ל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  21. דַּ֥ם dâm H1818 “blood of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  22. הָאָשָֽׁם ʼâshâm H817 “the · guilt” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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23
words
16
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is תְּנ֞וּךְ lobe H8571 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

תְּנ֞וּךְ lobe H8571 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 12 nouns
  • 3 adjectives
  • 5 prepositions
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • יִתֵּ֤ן Qal · Imperfect
  • הַמִּטַּהֵר֙ Hithpael · Participle Active

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עַל upon H5921 ×5
  • הַיְמָנִ֔ית right hand H3233 ×3
  • בֹּ֤הֶן thumb H931 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 54 words from the Hebrew and 52 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 23 Hebrew tokens and 45 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Leviticus 14:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 29:20–21 Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood on the altar round about.
  • Leviticus 8:30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.
  • Leviticus 14:14 The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
  • Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
  • John 1:16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • Titus 3:3–6 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • 1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled in his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Leviticus 14:17 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמִיֶּ֨תֶר הַשֶּׁ֜מֶן אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל כַּפּ֗וֹ יִתֵּ֤ן הַכֹּהֵן֙ עַל תְּנ֞וּךְ אֹ֤זֶן הַמִּטַּהֵר֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל בֹּ֤הֶן יָדוֹ֙ הַיְמָנִ֔ית וְעַל בֹּ֥הֶן רַגְל֖וֹ הַיְמָנִ֑ית עַ֖ל דַּ֥ם הָאָשָֽׁם

The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Leviticus 14:17 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ δέ καταλείπω ἔλαιον ὁ εἰμί ἐν ὁ χείρ ἐπιτίθημι ὁ ἱερεύς ἐπί ὁ λοβός ὁ οὖς ὁ καθαρίζω ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ χείρ ὁ δεξιός καί ἐπί ὁ ἄκρος ὁ πούς ὁ δεξιός ἐπί ὁ τόπος ὁ αἷμα ὁ ὁ πλημμέλεια

And the remaining oil that is in his hand, the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him that is under cleansing, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass-offering.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּמִשְׁאָר מִשְׁחָא דִי עַל יְדֵהּ יִתֵּן כַּהֲנָא עַל רוּם אוּדְנָא דְמִדַכֵּי דְיַּמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן יְדֵהּ דְיַמִינָא וְעַל אִלְיוֹן רַגְלֵהּ דְיַמִינָא עַל דְמָא דַאֲשָׁמָא

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּמִמַה דְמִשְׁתַּיֵיר מִמִשְׁחָא דְעַל יְדֵיהּ יִתֵּן כַּהֲנָא עַל חַסְחוּס דְאוּדְנָא דְמִידְכֵּי דְיַמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְיָדֵיהּ יַמִינָא וְעַל פּוּרְקָא מִיצְעָא דְרִיגְלֵיהּ יַמִינָא עִילַוֵי אֲתַר דְיָהַב מִן שֵׁרוּיָא אֲדָם קָרְבָּן דַאֲשָׁמָא

    And of what remaineth of the oil that is in his hand the priest shall put some upon the cartilage of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and upon the middle finger of his right hand, and on the middle toe of his right foot upon the spot whereon he had first put the blood of the trespass offering.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Leviticus 14:17 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lev 14:17 And of the rest of the oil that [is] in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:

Ver. 17. Upon the tip of the right ear.] To assure him of comfort, in hearing, doing, persevering.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Hebrew, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(17) And of the rest of the oil.—With the rest of the oil both priests returned to the leper, when the officiating priest put it on those parts of the convalescent’s body on which he had previously put blood, so that the oil now actually was “upon the blood of the trespass offering,” on the tip of the ear, the thumb, and the toe of the cleansed leper. (See also Lev_14:28.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand,.... That was either in the hand of the priest that was cleansing, or in the hand of his fellow priest; such of it as was left after some of it had been sprinkled seven times before the Lord:

shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot; signifying that these parts in the leprous sinner need to be sanctified by the grace of the Spirit of God, comparable to oil, with which all the Lord's people are anointed, and is that unction they receive from the Holy One, their great High Priest; by this the ear is sanctified so as to hear the word, so as to understand it and mix it with faith; and the thumb of the right hand having oil put on that, may signify that the actions of good men are influenced by the Spirit of God, who works in them both to will and to do, and without whose grace they can do nothing in a spiritual manner; and the great toe of the right foot, the instrument of walking, being anointed with the same, may denote that it is through the grace of God saints have their conversation in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, and as becomes the Gospel of Christ: the oil was to be put:

upon the blood of the trespass offering; that is, upon the place of the blood of it, as in Lev 14:28; which is, as the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, the place in which he put at first the blood of the trespass offering: for the Jewish writers observe (z), that the log of oil depended on the trespass offering; for if the flood of the trespass offering was not first sprinkled, the sprinkling of the oil was of no avail: this shows that the blood of Christ, is the foundation of men's receiving the grace of the Spirit, and that it is owing to that it is bestowed upon them; the application of his grace follows redemption by the blood of Christ, who gave himself to redeem them from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and for whomsoever expiation is made by the blood of Christ, they are sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.

(z) Bartenora in Misn. Zebachim, c. 4. sect. 3.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Him that is to be cleansed - Of him that has been cleansed. The significance of the act is similar to that in Lev 8:11, Lev 8:15.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Blood. Septuagint and Syriac, "upon the place of the blood," on the person’s ear, thumb, and toe.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

i.e. Upon the place of that blood, as it is expressed Lev 14:28, or where that blood was put, Lev 14:14; or, over and besides the blood, &c.; i.e. as the blood was put in those places, so shall the oil be.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

17. Upon the blood — As the oil was put upon the blood of the asham, or trespass offering, so is the blood of Christ our asham, (Isa_53:10,) the divine basis of the operations of the Holy Ghost. Hence he was not given till after Christ had been glorified by the crucifixion, (Joh_7:39; Joh_12:23; Joh_17:1,) nor in Christian experience is his peculiar office of the sanctifier fulfilled until after justification through the blood of Christ. The divine order of these blessings, prefigured by the oil upon the blood, should be carefully observed, inasmuch as all legalists are forever falling into the mistake of making sanctification the ground of justification. Whereas we are cleansed by the blood of sprinkling, and then the chief work of consecration, symbolized by the oil applied, takes place. Hence we do not consecrate to God our evil things, but our good things; we abandon our evil habits and consecrate our cleansed selves unto the Lord. Says Dean Alford, “The gift of the Spirit at and since the day of Pentecost was and is something totally distinct from any thing before that time. The first reception of him must not be illogically put in place of all his indwelling and working, which are intended,” in Joh_7:39. Thus we find here strong confirmation of the Wesleyan view of entire sanctification as a distinct work, an instantaneous “change immensely greater than that wrought when the believer was justified, and infinitely greater than any before, and than any one can conceive till he experiences it.” — J. Wesley.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Upon the blood - Upon the place where that blood was put.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

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the rest of the oil in his hand

"the rest of the oil that is in his hand"

the person to be cleansed

This can be translated in active form. AT: "the person whom he is cleansing" (See: Active or Passive)

before Yahweh

"in Yahweh's presence"

translationWords

priest

oil

clean

blood

guilt offering

atonement

Yahweh

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Lesson kit

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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 23 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tᵉnûwk (“lobe”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word tᵉnûwk carries the sense “lobe.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 29:20, which shares the word «lobe», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “upon” (5× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. «יִתֵּ֤ן» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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