Judges 1:12-13

1:12 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.” 1:13 When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, ¹  captured it, Caleb ²  gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

Judges 11:1

11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. ³ 

Judges 13:3

13:3 The Lord’s angelic ⁴  messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You ⁵  are infertile and childless, ⁶  but you will conceive and have a son.

Judges 13:9-10

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ⁷  God’s angelic messenger visited ⁸  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her. 13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband, ⁹  “Come quickly, ¹⁰  the man who visited ¹¹  me the other day has appeared to me!”

Judges 13:19-21

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ¹²  13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it ¹³  while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown ¹⁴  to the ground.

13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger. ¹⁵ 

Judges 19:26-27

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master ¹⁶  was staying until it became light. ¹⁷  19:27 When her master ¹⁸  got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 20:4

20:4 The Levite, ¹⁹  the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in ²⁰  Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin ²¹  to spend the night.

[1:13]  ¹ tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel was Caleb’s nephew; so CEV).

[1:13]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Caleb) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:1]  ¹ tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”

[13:3]  ¹ tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive (also in vv. 6, 9).

[13:3]  ² tn Heb “Look, you.”

[13:3]  ³ tn Heb “and have not given birth.”

[13:9]  ¹ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ² tn Heb “came to.”

[13:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.

[13:10]  ² tn Heb “Look.”

[13:10]  ³ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:19]  ¹ tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

[13:20]  ¹ tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

[13:20]  ² tn Heb “on their faces.”

[13:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s messenger.”

[19:26]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26]  ² tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[19:27]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[20:4]  ¹ tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”

[20:4]  ² tn Heb “came to.”

[20:4]  ³ tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”