20:19 On the third day25 you should go down quickly26 and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started.27 Stay near the stone Ezel.
tcHeb “you will do [something] a third time.” The translation assumes an emendation of the verb from שִׁלַּשְׁתָּ (shillashta, “to do a third time”) to שִׁלִּישִׁית (shillishit, “[on the] third [day]”).
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tnHeb “you must go down greatly.” See Judg 19:11 for the same idiom.
27
tnHeb “on the day of the deed.” This probably refers to the incident recorded in 19:2.