Hakim-hakim 7:12-14

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. 7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ²  The man ³  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ⁴  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁵  7:14 The other man said, ⁶  “Without a doubt this symbolizes ⁷  the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”

[7:13]  ² tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

[7:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “answered and said.”

[7:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “This can be nothing but.”