Judges 13:15

13:15 Manoah said to the Lord’s messenger, “Please stay here awhile, ¹  so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.” ² 

Judges 6:19

6:19 Gideon went and prepared a young goat, ³  along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food ⁴  to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Judges 15:1

Samson Versus the Philistines

15:1 Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, ⁵  Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. ⁶  He said to her father, ⁷  “I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!” ⁸  But her father would not let him enter.

[13:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Please allow us to detain you.”

[13:15]  ² tn Heb “so we can prepare before you a young goat of the goats.”

[6:19]  ³ tn Heb “a kid from among the goats.”

[6:19]  ⁴ tn The words “the food” are not in the Hebrew text (an implied direct object). They are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[15:1]  ⁵ sn The wheat harvest took place during the month of May. See O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 37, 88.

[15:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “Samson visited his wife with a young goat.”

[15:1]  ⁷ tn The words “to her father” are supplied in the translation (see the end of the verse).

[15:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will go to my wife in the bedroom.” The Hebrew idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations. The cohortative form used by Samson can be translated as indicating resolve (“I want to go”) or request (“let me go”).