Zechariah 13:5

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^13:5Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet—indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’⁸

8 Or perhaps “for the land has been my possession since my youth” (so ; similar ).

but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’

Each will say, ‘I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.’

He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth.’

He will say, ‘I’m no prophet; I’m a farmer. I began working for a farmer as a boy.’

but he will say, “I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth.”

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman;

For man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

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