Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ¹  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ²  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 14:6

14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered ³  him and he tore the lion ⁴  in two with his bare hands ⁵  as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

¹ tn Heb “and he went up.”

² tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

³ tn Heb “rushed on.”

⁴ tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”