Defending Gideon's Ephod as an Honest Mistake

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 64:2

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Another interpretation: He, too, and those who said it, intended it for the sake of correcting an error [for a right purpose], and they repaired it. And because his tribe was not on the ephod, he had no constellation [no share] in that ephod and in that repair.

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