Judges 6:27

6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants ¹  and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family ²  and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. ³ 

Judges 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ⁴ 

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes ⁵  and gave them ⁶  to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. ⁷ 

[6:27]  ¹ tn Heb “men from among his servants.”

[6:27]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[6:27]  ³ tn Heb “so he did it at night.”

[8:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

[14:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

[14:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

[14:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”