Wives for the Benjamites
Judges 21:20
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
- KJV
- Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
- WEB
- They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
- ASV
- And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
- LSV
- And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go—and you have laid wait in the vineyards,
- YLT
- And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, 'Go — and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,
- DBY
- And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
- DRC
- And they commanded the children of Benjamin, and said: Go, and lie hid in the vineyards,
- GNV
- Therefore they commanded the children of Beniamin, saying, Goe, and lye in waite in the vineyardes.
- JPS
- And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
- LXXE
- And they charged the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
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- Written (Ketiv): וַיְצַו (“and he commanded”). Read aloud (Qere): וַיְצַוּ֕וּ (“and they commanded”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads וַיְצַוֻּ֕; read aloud (Qere) reads וַיְצַוּ֕וּ (“and they commanded”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- ויצו אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכ֖וּ וַאֲרַבְתֶּ֥ם בַּכְּרָמִֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): וַיְצַוּ֕וּAdaptations to a Qere which L and BHS, by their design, do not indicate.
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἐνετείλαντο τοῖς υἱοῖς Βενιαμεὶν, λέγοντες, πορεύεσθε καὶ ἐνεδρεύσατε ἐν τοῖς ἀμπελῶσι,
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