Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives. "
— Judges 8:30, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.”
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives. ”
“Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.”
“Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.”
“And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.”
“Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.”
“And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.”
And Gideon made an ephod from these, and he kept it in his city, Ophrah. And all of Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gideon and to all his house.
But Midian was humbled before the sons of Israel. Neither were they able any longer to lift up their necks. But the land rested for forty years, while Gideon presided.
And so Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and lived in his own house.
And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives.
But his concubine, whom he had in Shechem, bore him a son named Abimelech.
And Gideon, the son of Joash, died in a good old age, and he was buried in the sepulcher of his father, at Ophrah, of the family of Ezri.
But after Gideon died, the sons of Israel turned away, and they committed fornication with the Baals. And they struck a covenant with Baal, so that he would be their god.