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 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ⁶  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁷  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁸  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁹  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. 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.”

[18:7]  ⁶ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ¹⁰ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.