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The UBS Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily to assist Bible translators as they carry out the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. The text is discussed verse by verse, and is accompanied by running text in at...

Elisha was plowing with the twelfth team of oxen. Elijah came up to Elisha. Elijah took off his coat and put it on Elisha. 19:20 He left the oxen: The pronoun he refers to Elisha and this should be made clear in translation as a number of English versions have done (GNT, NAB, NJB, REB, NLT). Ran after Elijah: The Hebrew does not state explicitly that Elijah had continued on his way, but he must have since Elisha ran after him. The subject of the first verb said is Elisha, but the subject of the second
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