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Judges 20:47-48
New English Translation
Judges 20:47-48
New English Translation
47 But 600 survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months. 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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- Judges 20:48 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
- 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).
- Judges 20:48 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
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