Judg 5:30 | NETfull | STEP | ‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder – a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’

Judges 5:30

30 ‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder ^{▼▼Heb “Are they not finding, dividing the plunder?”} –
a girl or two for each man to rape! ^{▼▼ Heb “a womb or two for each man.” The words “to rape” are interpretive. The Hebrew noun translated “girl” means literally “womb” (BDB 933 s.v. I. רַחַם), but in this context may refer by extension to the female genitalia. In this case the obscene language of Sisera’s mother alludes to the sexual brutality which typified the aftermath of battle.}
Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, ^{▼▼Heb “the plunder of dyed cloth is for Sisera.”}
he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, ^{▼▼Heb “the plunder of embroidered cloth.”}
two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth,
for the neck of the plunderer!’ ^{▼▼ The translation assumes an emendation of the noun (“plunder”) to a participle, “plunderer.”}