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Judges 11:38

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11:38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave 1  for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills. 2 

Judges 19:2

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19:2 However, she 3  got angry at him 4  and went home 5  to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

Judges 20:47

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20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
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[11:38]  1 tn Heb “he sent her.”

[11:38]  2 tn Heb “on the hills.” The words “as she walked” are supplied.

[19:2]  3 tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:2]  4 tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).

[19:2]  5 tn Heb “went from him.”



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