Judges 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ²  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ³ 

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ⁴  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ⁵  They went home ⁶  to their own territory, ⁷  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ⁸ 

[8:30]  ¹ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

[21:18]  ² tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

[21:18]  ³ tn Heb “is cursed.”

[21:23]  ³ tn Heb “did so.”

[21:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

[21:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “went and returned.”

[21:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “inheritance.”

[21:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “and lived in them.”