21:9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them11 died12 together; they were put to death during harvest time—during the first days of the beginning13 of the barley harvest.
tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading שְׁבַעְתָּם (shéva’tam, “the seven of them”) rather than MTשִׁבַעְתִּים (shiva’tim, “seventy”).
tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בִּתְחִלַּת (bithkhillat, “in the beginning”) rather than MTתְחִלַּת (tékhillat, “beginning of”).
