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Ehud availed himself of the opportunity to approach the king of the Moabites and put him to death, and thus to shake off the yoke of the Moabites from his nation. To this end he provided himself with a sword, which had two edges (פֵּיֹות from פֶּה, like שֵׂיֹו, Deu 22:1, from שֶׂה), a cubit long (גֹּמֶר, ἁπ. λεγ., signified primarily a staff, here a cubit, according to the Syriac and Arabic; not “a span,” σπιθαμή, lxx), and “did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.”