Judges 15:15

He happened to see ¹  a solid ²  jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it ³  and struck down ⁴  a thousand men.

Finding a fresh jaw-bone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took it and killed a thousand men with it.

Then he picked up a donkey’s jawbone that was lying on the ground and killed a thousand Philistines with it.

He spotted a fresh donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it killed the whole company.

And taking up the mouth-bone of an ass newly dead, which he saw by chance on the earth, he put to death a thousand men with it.

Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.

He happened to see ¹  a solid ²  jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it ³  and struck down ⁴  a thousand men.

¹ tn Heb “he found.”

² tn Heb “fresh,” i.e., not decayed and brittle.

³ tn Heb “he reached out his hand and took it.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds “with it.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.