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Judges 20:8-10
New English Translation
Judges 20:8-10
New English Translation
8 All Israel rose up in unison[a] and said, “Not one of us will go home![b] Not one of us will return[c] to his house! 9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.[d] 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.[e] When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin, they will punish them for the atrocity that they committed in Israel.”[f]
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- Judges 20:8 tn Heb “as one man.”
- Judges 20:8 tn Heb “to his tent.”
- Judges 20:8 tn Or “turn aside.”
- Judges 20:9 tn Heb “against her by lot.” The verb “we will go up” (נַעֲלֶה, naʿaleh) has probably been accidentally omitted before “against her” (עָלֶיהָ, ʿaleha).sn As the lot dictates. The Israelite soldiers intended to cast lots to determine which tribe would lead the battle charge (see v. 18).
- Judges 20:10 tn Or “people.”
- 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.”
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