Judges 8:24-26

8:24 Gideon continued, ¹  “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” ²  (The Midianites ³  had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) 8:25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” ⁴  So they ⁵  spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it. 8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. ⁶  This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, ⁷  purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “said to them.”

² tn Heb “Give to me, each one, an earring from his plunder.”

³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Midianites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “We will indeed give.”

⁵ tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.

⁶ sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.

⁷ tn Or “pendants.”

⁸ tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”