The Crime of the Benjamites
Judges 19:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,LXX became angry with him
- KJV
- And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months.four whole months: or, a year and four month: Heb. days, four months
- WEB
- His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father’s house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there for four months.
- ASV
- And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.
- LSV
- and his concubine commits whoredom against him, and she goes from him to the house of her father, to Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there four months of days.
- YLT
- and commit whoredom against him doth his concubine, and she goeth from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days — four months.
- DBY
- And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem-Judah, and was there some time, — four months.
- DRC
- And she left him and returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem, and abode with him four months.
- GNV
- And his concubine played ye whore there, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Beth-lehem Iudah, and there continued the space of foure moneths.
- JPS
- And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months.
- LXXE
- And his concubine departed from him, and went away from him to the house of her father to Bethleem Juda, and she was there four months.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַתִּזְנֶ֤ה עָלָיו֙ פִּֽילַגְשׁ֔וֹ וַתֵּ֤לֶךְ מֵֽאִתּוֹ֙ אֶל־בֵּ֣ית אָבִ֔יהָ אֶל־בֵּ֥ית לֶ֖חֶם יְהוּדָ֑ה וַתְּהִי־שָׁ֕ם יָמִ֖ים אַרְבָּעָ֥ה חֳדָשִֽׁים׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ ἡ παλλακὴ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπῆλθε παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς οἶκον πατρὸς αὐτῆς εἰς Βηθλεὲμ Ἰούδα, καὶ ἦν ἐκεῖ ἡμέρας μηνῶν τεσσάρων.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Ezekiel 16:28Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 22:21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge…
- Leviticus 21:9If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
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