25They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
25They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
22 The Israelites said to Gideon, "Rule over us-you, your son and your grandson-because you have saved us out of the hand of Midian."
23 But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you."
24 And he said, "I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder." (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)
25 They answered, "We'll be glad to give them." So they spread out a garment, and each man threw a ring from his plunder onto it.
26 The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels' necks.
27 Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
8:25And they answered, We will willingly give [them.] And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
8:25They answered: We will give them most willingly. And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.
8:25And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
8:25And they answered, |We will willingly give them.| And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil.
8:25And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his spoil.
8:25And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and cast into it every man the ear-rings of his prey.
8:25They answered, |We will willingly give them.| They spread a garment, and every man threw the earrings of his spoil into it.
8:25And they say, 'We certainly give;' and they spread out the garment, and cast thither each the ring of his prey;
8:25And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.