Judges 5:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A woman or two for every man; spoil of dyed stuffs for Sisera, spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; To every man a damsel or two; To Sisera a prey of divers colours, A prey of divers colours of needlework, Of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Have they not found and been dividing the spoil? A maiden or two for every man, a spoil of dyed garments for Sisera, a spoil of dyed stuffs embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for my neck as spoil?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

Common English Bible

³⁰ “Wouldn’t they be finding and dividing the loot? A girl or two for each warrior; loot of colored cloths for Sisera; loot of colored, embroidered cloths; two colored, embroidered cloths as loot for every neck.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ 'Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the most beautiful among the women is being selected for him. Garments of diverse colors are being delivered to Sisera as spoils, and various goods are being collected for the adornment of necks.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ Perhaps he is now dividing the spoils, and the fairest of the women is chosen out for him. Garments of divers colours are given to Sisara for his prey, and furniture of different kinds is heaped together to adorn the necks.

Judges 5:30 Cross References

Genesis 37:3

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him an ornamented robe.

2 Samuel 13:18

(Now she was wearing an ornamented robe with sleeves, for this is how the virgin daughters of the king were clothed in earlier times.) So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

Psalm 45:14

in many-colored robes she is led to the king; behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.

Psalm 68:12

“The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil,

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake; I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

Exodus 27:16

For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework; it shall have four pillars and with them four bases.

Proverbs 16:19

It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Judges 5:19

The kings came; they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.

Judges 5:29

Her wisest ladies make answer; indeed, she answers the question herself: