Judges 7:5

7:5 So he brought the men ¹  down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.” ² 

Judges 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. ³  So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ⁴  For the child will be dedicated ⁵  to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

Judges 13:14

13:14 She should not drink ⁶  anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. ⁷  She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin ⁸  at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength ⁹  was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring ¹⁰  En Hakkore. ¹¹  It remains in Lehi to this very day.

¹ tn Heb “the people.”

² tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.”

³ tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

⁴ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

⁵ tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”

⁵ tn Heb “eat.”

⁶ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

⁷ tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

⁸ tn Heb “spirit.”

⁹ tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”