Judges 11:1

11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. ¹ 

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ²  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ³  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ⁴  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”

² tn Heb “and he went up.”

³ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

³ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

⁴ tn Heb “is cursed.”