Judges 8:26

²⁴ Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

²⁵ “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.

²⁷ From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

²⁸ In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
KJV: And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
WEB: The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, in addition to the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and in addition to the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
ASV: And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels` necks.
DARBY: And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand seven hundred [shekels] of gold; besides the moons, and eardrops, and the purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
BLB: And the weight of the gold rings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, apart from the crescent ornaments and pendants and purple robes that [were] on the kings of Midian, and apart from the chains that [were] around the necks of their camels.

ÅB: Og vekten av de gullringer han hadde bedt om, var et tusen og syv hundre sekel gull foruten de halvmåner og øresmykker og purpurklær som midianittenes konger hadde på seg, og foruten de kjeder som deres kameler hadde om halsen.
OTB: Vekten av gulløreringene han ba om var sytten hundre sjekel, uten å telle ornamentene, anhengene og de purpurfargede klærne båret av Midjans konger, eller kjedene på kamelene deres hals.
B1930: Og vekten av de gullringer han hadde bedt om, var et tusen og syv hundre sekel gull foruten de halvmåner og øresmykker og purpurklær som midianittenes konger hadde på sig, og foruten de kjeder som deres kameler hadde om halsen.

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