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Then Zebah and Zalmunnasaid, "Rise up yourself, and fall on us; for as the man, so is his strength." So Gideonarose and killedZebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescentornamentswhich were on their camels'necks.
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Yet Gideonsaid to them, "I would request* of you, that each of you give me an earring from his spoil." (For they had goldearrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
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The weight of the goldearrings that he requested was 1,700** shekels of gold, besides* the crescentornaments and the pendants and the purplerobeswhich were on the kings of Midian, and besides* the neckbands that were on their camels'necks.
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Gideonmade it into an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah, and allIsraelplayed the harlot with it there, so that it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
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So Midian was subduedbefore the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their headsanymore. And the land was undisturbed for fortyyears in the days of Gideon.