Judges 4:19

4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Judges 5:4

5:4 O Lord, when you departed ¹  from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,

the earth shook, the heavens poured down,

the clouds poured down rain. ² 

Judges 6:38

6:38 The Lord did as he asked. ³  When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl. ⁴ 

Judges 7:6

7:6 Three hundred men lapped; ⁵  the rest of the men ⁶  kneeled to drink water.

[5:4]  ¹ tn Or “went out.”

[5:4]  ² tn Heb “water.”

[6:38]  ¹ tn Heb “And it was so.”

[6:38]  ² tn Heb “dew dripped from the fleece – a bowl full of water.”

[7:6]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text adds, “with their hands to their mouths,” This makes no sense in light of v. 5, which distinguishes between dog-like lappers (who would not use their hands to drink) and those who kneel (who would use their hands). It seems likely that the words “with their hands to their mouths” have been misplaced from v. 6. They fit better at the end of v. 5 or v. 6. Perhaps these words were originally a marginal scribal note which was later accidentally inserted into the text in the wrong place.

[7:6]  ² tn Heb “the people.”