4:21a But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion,

He was very tired and so he was in a deep sleep.
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While he was tired and sound asleep,

4:21b Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera.

But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer and quietly went to Sisera.
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Jael, the wife of Heber, found an iron nail used to set up a tent and a hammer. She quietly went to General Sisera,

4:21c She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground,

She hammered the peg through his temple and into the ground
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then she pounded the nail through the side of his head. It went through into the ground,

4:21d and he died.

and so he died.
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so he died.

4:21a-d (reordered)

Sisera was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep. Jael, Heber’s wife, took an iron nail from the tent. She got a hammer and approached Sisera quietly. She drove the nail into his temple and it went through into the ground. Then Sisera died.

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