Judges 9:36
And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold a multitude cometh down from the mountains. And he answered him: Thou seest the shadows of the mountains as if they were the heads of men, and this is thy mistake.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque vidisset populum Gaal, dixit ad Zebul : Ecce de montibus multitudo descendit. Cui ille respondit : Umbras montium vides quasi capita hominum, et hoc errore deciperis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶδεν Γάλααδ υἱὸς Ἰώβηλ τὸν λαόν, καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς Ζεβούλ Ἰδοὺ λαὸς καταβαίνει ἀπὸ κεφαλῶν τῶν ὀρέων· καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτὸν Ζεβούλ Τὴν σκιὰν τῶν ὀρέων σὺ βλέπεις ὡς ἄνδρας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּרְא גַּעַל֮ אֶת הָעָם֒ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל זְבֻ֔ל הִנֵּה עָ֣ם יוֹרֵ֔ד מֵרָאשֵׁ֖י הֶהָרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ זְבֻ֔ל אֵ֣ת צֵ֧ל הֶהָרִ֛ים אַתָּ֥ה רֹאֶ֖ה כָּאֲנָשִֽׁים
Haydock's commentary
To Zebul. It seems the latter had acted with such dissimulation, that Gaal supposed he had come over to his party. Zebul laughs at him, as if he were disturbed with groundless fears, (Haydock) in order that Abimelech may take him unawares. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.