Discovery BoxJudges 5:30 
Context5:30 ‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder 1 –
a girl or two for each man to rape! 2
Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, 3
he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, 4
two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth,
for the neck of the plunderer!’ 5
Judges 9:16
Context9:16 “Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, 6 if you have properly repaid him 7 –
1 tn Heb “Are they not finding, dividing the plunder?”
2 tn Heb “a womb or two for each man.” The words “to rape” are interpretive. The Hebrew noun translated “girl” means literally “womb” (BDB 933 s.v. I. רַחַם), but in this context may refer by extension to the female genitalia. In this case the obscene language of Sisera’s mother alludes to the sexual brutality which typified the aftermath of battle.
3 tn Heb “the plunder of dyed cloth is for Sisera.”
4 tn Heb “the plunder of embroidered cloth.”
5 tn The translation assumes an emendation of the noun (“plunder”) to a participle, “plunderer.”
6 tn Heb “house.”
7 tn Heb “if according to the deeds of his hands you have done to him.”
