Judges 9:48
Went up into mount Selmon he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do you out of hand.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ascendit in montem Selmon cum omni populo suo : et arrepta securi, præcidit arboris ramum, impositumque ferens humero, dixit ad socios : Quod me videtis facere, cito facite.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνέβη Ἀβειμέλεχ εἰς ὄρος Ἐρμών, καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἀβειμέλεχ τὰς ἀξίνας ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔκοψεν κλάδον ξύλου καὶ ἦρεν καὶ ἔθηκεν ἐπ᾽ ὤμων αὐτοῦ, καὶ εἶπεν τῷ λαῷ τῷ μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ Ὃ εἴδετέ με ποιοῦντα, ταχέως ποιήσατε ὡς ἐγώ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּ֨עַל אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ הַר צַלְמ֗וֹן הוּא֮ וְכָל הָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֹ֒ וַיִּקַּח֩ אֲבִימֶ֨לֶךְ אֶת הַקַּרְדֻּמּ֜וֹת בְּיָד֗וֹ וַיִּכְרֹת֙ שׂוֹכַ֣ת עֵצִ֔ים וַיִּ֨שָּׂאֶ֔הָ וַיָּ֖שֶׂם עַל שִׁכְמ֑וֹ וַיֹּ֜אמֶר אֶל הָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר עִמּ֗וֹ מָ֤ה רְאִיתֶם֙ עָשִׂ֔יתִי מַהֲר֖וּ עֲשׂ֥וּ כָמֽוֹנִי
Haydock's commentary
Selmon. This mountain lay towards the Jordan, and was covered with trees and snow, Psalm lxvii. 16. (Menochius)
Bough. Septuagint, "a burden or faggot of sticks." Josephus observes that they were dry. (Calmet)
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.