20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns91 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities,92 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.93
tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir métim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir métom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
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tnHeb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”