SIL Translator’s Notes on Judges 15:16

15:16a Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps.

(Good News Translation🙂 Then Samson said, “With a jawbone from a donkey, I’ve made two piles of them.

Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, I piled them in two piles.
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Then Samson said, “I used the jawbone of a donkey, and I left them in two heaps.
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Then Samson sang, “I made of them two heaps with the jawbone of an donkey.

15:16b With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.

With the jawbone of a donkey, I killed a thousand men.”
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I used the jawbone of a donkey, and I killed a thousand men.”
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With the jawbone of an donkey, I struck down one thousand men.”

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