Hakim-hakim 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ¹  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ²  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ³ 

Hakim-hakim 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ⁴  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

[20:48]  ¹ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

[20:48]  ² tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

[20:48]  ³ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”