10:24a And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

Then they proceeded to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

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⌊After doing that,⌋ they all began to make sacrifices and burnt offerings.

10:24b Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them,

Meanwhile, Jehu told 80 men to stand outside ⌊the temple⌋ . He gave them this strict command,

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However, Jehu had appointed eighty (80) men to wait outside. He warned them

10:24c “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape,

“I have put these men in your power! Anyone who lets one of them escape,

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not to allow any of the people he had put under their control to run away. If they did,

10:24d he will forfeit his life for theirs.”

will pay for it with his life!” (Good News Translation)

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they would die in place of the one they had allowed to run away.

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