Fortunate Heb. with fortune! Another reading is, Fortune is come. The versions (LXX ἐν τύχῃ = "with fortune," Lat. feliciter) follow the reading of the Hebrew text (Ke'thîb). The other reading, followed by the Massoretic tradition (Ḳerî), is found in the Targum of Onkelos. Gad seems to have been the name of an ancient Aramaean god of fortune, whose worship existed among the Canaanites. Cf. the names Baal-gad (Joshua 11:17), and Migdal-gad (Joshua 15:37). The Jews in Babylon made offerings to this god of good fortune; cf. Isaiah 65:11. In Judges 5:17, Gilead takes the place of Gad.

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