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and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.
23
And Aod went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed , and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked .
24
And he went out: and Eglom's servants came, and saw, and behold, the doors of the upper chamber locked; and they said, Does he not uncover his feet in the summer-chamber?
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And they waited till they were ashamed, and, behold, there was no one that opened the doors of the upper chamber; and they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead upon the earth.
26
And Aod escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Setirotha.
27
And it came to pass when Aod came into the land of Israel, that he blew the horn in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
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And he said to them, Come down after me, for the Lord God has delivered our enemies, even Moab, into our hand; and they went down after him, and seized on the fords of Jordan before Moab, and he did not suffer a man to pass over.
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And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.
30
So Moab was humbled in that day under the hand of Israel, and the land had rest eighty years; and Aod judged them till he died.
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And after him rose up Samegar the son of Dinach, and smote the Philistines to the number of six hundred men with a ploughshare oxen; and he too delivered Israel.