Hakim-hakim 3:6

3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ¹  they worshiped ²  their gods as well.

Hakim-hakim 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ³  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ⁴  He said, “Yes.” ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 13:19

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ⁷  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ⁸  Now get her for my wife.”

Hakim-hakim 21:1

600 Brides for 600 Brothers

21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “to their sons.”

[3:6]  ² tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

[13:11]  ³ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the woman.”

[13:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “I [am].”

[13:19]  ⁶ tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

[14:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[14:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”