⁴ They gave him seventy shekels^[a] of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith,^(A) and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels,^(B) who became his followers.

²⁷ After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden^(A) them, they held a festival in the temple of their god.^(B) While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek.

⁴⁶ On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple^(A) of El-Berith.