Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ¹  Israelite women commemorate ²  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ³ 

Judges 5:11

5:11 Hear ⁴  the sound of those who divide the sheep ⁵  among the watering places;

there they tell of ⁶  the Lord’s victorious deeds,

the victorious deeds of his warriors ⁷  in Israel.

Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

[11:40]  ¹ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

[11:40]  ² tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

[11:40]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[5:11]  ⁴ tn The word “Hear” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[5:11]  ⁵ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Some translate “those who distribute the water” (HALOT 344 s.v. חצץ pi). For other options see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 246-47.

[5:11]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps “repeat.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn See the note on the term “warriors” in v. 7.