Judges 20:10 — ExegesisTAB

The Hebrew vav-consecutive in velakachnu {וְלָקַ֣חְנוּ | wə-lā-qă-ḥə-nū} establishes a narrative progression of collective decision. The distributive numerals asarah … ume’ah … la’elef … ve’elef … lar’vavah form a proportional scale, each introduced by lamed prepositions and linked by vav conjunctions to indicate tiered recruitment across the tribes. The infinitive constructs lakachat {לָקַחַת | lā-qa-ḥat} and la’asot {לַעֲשׂוֹת | la-ʿă-śōt} govern tzedah to express purposeful intent (“to take provision,” “to do”), while levo’am {לְבוֹאָם | lə-vo-ʾām} adds a temporal–result clause for their coming to Gibeah, highlighting preparatory readiness. The relative clause kekhol han’valah asher asah beyisrael {כְּכָל־הַנְּבָלָה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל} functions as a motive clause, introduced by the relative pronoun asher {אֲשֶׁר | ʾă-šer} ‘which’, linking the communal response to the moral outrage.