Bible verse
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
Judges 8:30 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 8.
26 The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
27 From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
28 In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,
29 and he—Jerubbaal son of Joash—returned home and settled down.
30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
31 His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32 Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
34 The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
KJV
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
ASV
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.
ERV
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
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