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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

In Hebrew the verb cut off also governs a second object, which is rendered in RSV the name of the idolatrous priests. These are of course the priests involved in the cult of Baal, and TEV makes this explicit with its “the pagan priests who serve him.” The Hebrew expression cut off … the name means “cause people to forget,” and this is the meaning expressed nonfiguratively in TEV, “no one will remember.” The Hebrew text contains two more words, translated with the priests in the RSV footnote. The
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