1:29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.
9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 6
1 tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”
2 tn Heb “from before.”
3 tn Heb “his brother.”
1 tc Heb “stayed.” Some scholars revise the vowel pointing on this verb from that of the MT, resulting in the translation “and he returned to.” The Lucianic recension of the LXX understands the word in this way.
2 tn Heb “drove…out from dwelling in Shechem.”
1 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
1 tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.
1 tn Heb “and the man arose to go.”
2 tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”