Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.
WEB
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
YLT
and to Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;
DBT
Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy