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48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns[a] and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities,[b] the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.[c]

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  1. Judges 20:48 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
  2. Judges 20:48 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (meʿir metim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (meʿir metom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
  3. Judges 20:48 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”