²⁴ Und sie gehorchten dem Hemor und Sichem, seinem Sohn, alle, die zu seiner Stadt Tor aus und ein gingen, und beschnitten alles, was männlich war, das zu seiner Stadt aus und ein ging.

² Und da er heraufkam, sagte er's an seinem Vater und seiner Mutter und sprach: Ich habe ein Weib gesehen zu Thimnath unter den Töchtern der Philister; gebt mir nun diese zum Weibe.

¹ It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

² Yahweh said, "Judah shall go up. Behold, I have delivered the land into his hand."

³ Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him.

⁴ Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

⁵ They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.