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1 Samuel 2:5
New English Translation
1 Samuel 2:5
New English Translation
5 The well fed hire themselves out to earn food,
but the hungry no longer lack.[a]
Even[b] the barren woman has given birth to seven,[c]
but the one with many children has declined.[d]
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tn By implication these lines refer to those formerly well-fed and those formerly hungry.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ʿad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.
- 1 Samuel 2:5 tn Or “languished.”
New English Translation (NET)
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