Hakim-hakim 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. ¹  Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. ²  When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; ³  when I say, ⁴  ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ⁶  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ⁷  took an ax ⁸  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ⁹  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ¹⁰ 

[7:4]  ¹ tn Heb “too many people.”

[7:4]  ² tn Heb “test them for you there.”

[7:4]  ³ tn Heb “he should go with you.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Heb also has “to you.”

[7:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “he should not go.”

[9:48]  ⁶ tn Heb “his people.”

[9:48]  ⁷ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

[9:48]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

[9:48]  ⁹ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

[9:48]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”