We subjoin from the art. " Targum" in Smith's Diet, of the Bible the following specimens of this Targum from different books :
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TARGUM
JUDG. V,
Authorized Version. 1. Then san? Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, on thut day, saying,
Targum.
1. And Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoani, t;ave praise for the miracle and the salvation which were wrought for Israel on that day, and spake :
2. When the children of Israel re- bel against the law. then the na- tions come over them and drive them out of their cities ; but when
they return to do the law, then they are mighty over their enemies, and* drive them out from the whole territory of the land of Israel. Thus has been broken Sisera and all his armies to his punishment, and to a miracle and a salvation for Israel. Then the wise returu- t>!f\ to sit in the houses of the synagogue . . . aud to teach unto the lople the doctrine of the law. Therefore praise ye aud bless the
2. Praise ve the Lord for the avensin;; of Israel, when the people willingly otfereJ themselves.
Lord.
3. Hear, O ye kines; pi ve princes ; I, even I, will the Lord ; 1 will sing pra Lord God of Israel.
ear, O ng unto ! to the
3. Hear, ye kinf^s (ye who came with Sisera" to the battle-array); listen, ye rulere [ye who were with Jrtbin, the king of Kenaan : not with your armies nor with your power
have ye conquered and become mighty over the house of Urael]— said Deborah in pruphecy before God : I praise, give thanks and blessings before the Lord, the God of Israel.
4. [O Lord, thy law which thou gavest to Israel, when they trans- gress it, then the nations rule over them : but when they return to it, then they become powerful over their enemies.] O Lord, on the day
when thou didst reveal thyself to give it unto them from Seir,thou
becamest manifest unto them in the splendor of thy glory over
the territories of Edom : the earth trembled, the heavens showered
down, the clouds dropped rain.
5. The mountains melted from be- 5. The mountains trembled before
fore the Lord, even that Sinai from the Lord, the mountains of Tabor,
before the Lord God of Israel. the mountain of Hermon, and the
mountain of Carmel, spake with
and said one to the other: Upon me the Shechinah
id to me will it come. But the Shechinah rested upon
i, which is the weakest and smallest of all the moun-
.._ This Sinai trembled and shook, and its smoke went up
.s goes up the smoke of an oven : because of the glory of the God
f Israel which had manifested itself upon it.
tie days of Shamgar, the 6. Whrn they transgressed '
4. Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trem- bled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
each other will rest, n Mount Sin
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son of Anath, in the days of Jaei the highways were unoccupied, anc tbe travellers walked through by-
7. The inhabitants of th ceased, they ceas that I, Deborah, i mother in Israel.
tillages
1, until
, that I arose a
8. They chnse var in the gates
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days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, ceased the way- farers : they who had walked in well - prepared ways had again to walk in furtive paths.
7. Destroyed were the open cities of the laud" of Israel : their inhabi- tants were shaken off and driven about, until I, Deborah, was sent to prophesy over the house of Israel.
8. When the children of Israel went to pray unto new idols [er- rors],which recently had come to be worshipped, with which their fa- thers did not concern themselves,
ations and drove them out of their ed to the law, they could not pre- made themselves strong, and Sisera lemy and the adversary, with forty thousand chiefs of troops, with fifty thousand holders of the sword, with sixty thousand holders of spears, with seventy thousand hold- ers of shields, with eighty thousand throwers of arrows and slings, besides nine hundred iron chariots which lie had with him, and his own chariots. All these thousands and all these hosts could not stand before Barak and the ten thousand men he had with him.
toward the gov- 9. Spake Deborah in prophecy : I
n sent to praise the scribes of Is-
ho, while this tribulatioi
I among forty thousand iii
there came over them the i cities ; but when they retur vail against them until they went up against them, th
9. My heart ernors of Israel, that otfered then selves willingly among the peopl Bless ye the Lord.
them who sat in the houses of ( the people the doctrine of the 1; before the Lord.
10. Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.
lasted, ceased not to study law: and it redo "
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ngregation, wide open, and taught Vj and praised and rendered thanks
10. Those who had interrupted their occupations are riding on asses covered with many-colored capari- sons, and they ride about freely in id congregate to sit in judgment, speaking of the power thou