Note 329 — Chapter V · THE AGE OF THE JUDGES

The Massoretic punctuation makes it ‘spoil.’ Ewald conjecturally reads sârâh, ‘princess,’ for shâlâl, ‘spoiling.’ The Septuagint has, equally conjecturally, ‘spoils for his neck.’ The garment referred to is the white towel worn round the neck as a protection from the sun or wind, and called shaqqa in Upper Egypt, or the parti-coloured milâya used for the same purpose in Lower Egypt. Cheyne translates: ‘A coloured stuff, two pieces of embroidery, for my neck, has he taken for a prey.’