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Judges 21:11
New English Translation
Judges 21:11
New English Translation
11 Do this:[a] Exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed.[b] But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.[c]
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- Judges 21:11 tn Heb “And this is the thing that you will do.”
- Judges 21:11 tn Heb “a knower of the bed of a male.” The verb יָדָע (yadaʿ) “to know,” “be intimate with,” is used as a euphemism for sexual relations.
- Judges 21:11 tc Some Greek witnesses (notably Codex Vaticanus [B]) add the words, “‘But the virgins you should keep alive.’ And they did so.” These additional words, which probably represent the original Hebrew text, can be retroverted: וְאֶת־הַבְּתוּלוֹת תְּחַיּוּ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן (veʾet habbetulot tekhayyu vayyaʿasu khen). It is likely that a scribe’s eye jumped from the ו (vav) on וְאֶת (veʾet) to the initial vav of v. 11, accidentally leaving out the intervening letters. The present translation is based on this reconstruction.
Judges 21:11
New International Version
Judges 21:11
New International Version
11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.(B)”
Judges 21:11
King James Version
Judges 21:11
King James Version
11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
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