On the noun אִישׁ in Judges 21:1 (2 of 2)

(The above rendering comes from the RJPS translation, an adaptation of the NJPS translation. Before accounting for this rendering, I will analyze the plain sense of the Hebrew term containing אִישׁ.)

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The situating noun אִישׁ is commonly used in schematically framed prohibitions such as this one. The fronting of אִישׁ before the verb is a marked syntax; it indicates that exceptions are not tolerable. Similar cases include:

• אִישׁ מִמֶּנּוּ אֶת־קִבְרוֹ לֹא־יִכְלֶה מִמְּךָ (Gen 23:6)
• אִישׁ אַל־יוֹתֵר מִמֶּנּוּ עַד־בֹּקֶר (Exod 16:19)

Contrast the unmarked syntax, which places אִישׁ after the verb. Examples include:

• לֹא־יָרִים אִישׁ אֶת־יָדוֹ (Gen 41:44)
• לֹא תֵצְאוּ אִישׁ מִפֶּתַח־בֵּיתוֹ עַד־בֹּקֶר (Exod 12:22)
• ‏וְלֹא־יַחְמֹד אִישׁ אֶת־אַרְצְךָ (Exod 34:24)
• לֹא־יַקְדִּישׁ אִישׁ אֹתוֹ (Lev 27:26)
• לֹא־יִקַּח אִישׁ אֶת־אֵשֶׁת אָבִיו (Deut 23:1)

Such categorical statements are more gently framed; they do not pointedly exclude exceptions. See further Stein 2020, §8.2.1 (pp. 188–92) and §8.4.11 (pp. 211–12).

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As for rendering into English, the NJPS ‘None of us will’ appropriately construes the usage of our noun as akin to an indefinite pronoun. (Thus the referents’ gender is not expressed; it goes without saying.) However, it does not reflect the marked syntax. The revised rendering does.
(Although this is not a matter of gender per se, a more precise representation of the nuance here supports the situation-oriented construal of אִישׁ, and a recognition of its discourse functions.)