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2 Kings 4:39

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4:39Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine.59 He picked some of its fruit,60 enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices61 into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.62

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  1. 59 Heb “a vine of the field.”
  2. 60 Heb “[some] of the gourds of the field.”
  3. 61 Heb “he came and cut [them up].”
  4. 62 The Hebrew text reads, “for they did not know” (יָדָעוּ, yada’u) but some emend the final shureq (וּ, indicating a third plural subject) to holem vav (וֹ, a third masculine singular pronominal suffix on a third singular verb) and read “for he did not know it.” Perhaps it is best to omit the final vav as dittographic (note the vav at the beginning of the next verb form) and read simply, “for he did not know.” See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

One went out to the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment would hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, but they were unaware of what they were.

NLTNew Living Translation

One of the young men went out into the field to gather herbs and came back with a pocketful of wild gourds. He shredded them and put them into the pot without realizing they were poisonous.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it and filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know what they were.

KJV 1900King James Version

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.