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Judges 20:10-12
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10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army.[a] When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin, they will punish them for the atrocity that they committed in Israel.”[b] 11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.[c]

12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe[d] of Benjamin, saying, “How could such a wicked thing take place?[e]

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  1. Judges 20:10 tn Or “people.”
  2. Judges 20:10 tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”
  3. Judges 20:11 tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”
  4. Judges 20:12 tc The MT reads the plural, but surely the singular (which is supported by the LXX and Vulgate) is preferable here.
  5. Judges 20:12 tn Heb “What is this wicked thing which happened among you?”
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