and yet so they sufficed them not i.e. the 400 virgins were not sufficient for the 600 Benjamite survivors; a prosaic attempt to harmonize with the old story in Judges 21:15, as though the rape at Shiloh were a supplementary device to bring the number of wives up to the total required; cf. Judges 21:16 a. Lit. the phrase may be rendered and they(the Israelites) did not findenough for themeven so, cf. Numbers 11:22; as a rule enoughis expressed in the Heb., Leviticus 12:8; Leviticus 25:26; Leviticus 25:28.

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