Judges 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. ¹  So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ²  For the child will be dedicated ³  to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin ⁴  at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength ⁵  was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring ⁶  En Hakkore. ⁷  It remains in Lehi to this very day.

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¹ tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

² tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

³ tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”

⁴ tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

⁵ tn Heb “spirit.”

⁶ tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”