20:31a The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city.

Then the Benjamin people came out of the town to fight the Israel people.
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The men of Benjamin came out to fight. They went far away from the town.

20:31b They began to attack the people as before,

They began to kill the Israel people as they had done ⌊on the previous days⌋ .
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They began to kill the soldiers of Israel. They did as they had done on the other days.

20:31c killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads,

About thirty Israel men died in the field and along the roads.
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There were about thirty Israel soldiers who died. They died in the open land and in the roads

20:31d one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

One of the roads went to Bethel town and the other went to Gibeah town.
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that went to the towns of Bethel and Gibeah.

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